Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Glascarn, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glascarn
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52656, -7.50503
- SMR number
- WM018-154----
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
The outline of a levelled oval-shaped enclosure, possibly a ringfort with levelled field system radiating out from the monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Not visible on earlier editions of the OSI aerial photographs and not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 7 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.