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
- 53.47870, -7.55375
- SMR number
- WM024-172----
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to S, incorporated into a woodland plantation on the estate lands of Lunestown Demesne. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank best preserved at S and almost reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) elsewhere. The scarp may have been modified during tree planting. There is no fosse or entrance visible. The interior has a slight N-facing slope and has low banks and humps of earth and stone which may be a result of tree planting.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.