Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Marlinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marlinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51112, -7.30135
- SMR number
- WM019-083----
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 on a small rounded rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to E and W and overlooked by higher ground to W and N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 40m N-S; 42m E-W), annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. No visible trace of monument on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.