Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Simonstown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Simonstown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54865, -7.49556
- SMR number
- WM018-062----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in level pasture. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Possible antiquity shown as a double dotted circle on 1776 Estate Map (NLI, MS 21 F 48 (26)). Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 February 2019
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (26) - National Library of Ireland, A map of lands at Ballinbeg Rathconrath and Simonstown... in the barony of Rathconrath and County of Westmeath. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.