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Ringfort - unclassified

Lunestown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Lunestown, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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