Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lunestown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lunestown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54869, -7.14585
- SMR number
- WM020-047----
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 crest to E of the summit of Sion Hill and immediately N of a townland boundary, in pasture, with extensive views to N, E and S. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a roughly circular shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 35m). Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork the shape of which appears to have been altered by quarrying activities. Levelled monument described in 1970 as a broad and shallow oval-shaped depression similar in size to an average rath visible at location where monument is depicted on OS 6-inch map. The earthwork that is depicted on OS mapping appears to have been quarried and there is no longer any visible evidence of a bank or interior. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.