Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lalistown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lalistown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48253, -7.54256
- SMR number
- WM024-074----
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 a farmyard, on the shoulder of a steep hill marked by an OS trig. point (513m OD), in pasture. Ringfort (WM024-073----) lies c. 230m to WSW. Annotated 'Fort' and depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped earthwork outlined by a scarp. Farm buildings depicted at this location on the revised ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.