Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement platform
Robinstown (fartullagh By., Carrick Par.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robinstown (fartullagh By., Carrick Par.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45631, -7.39349
- SMR number
- WM025-158----
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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
A settlement platform (designated Platform 1: WM025-157----) was excavated between 1990 and 1992. During the final season of excavation, in 1992 (licence No. 92E0056), a narrow trench was extended from Platform 1 ‘into a 2nd platform which abuts the site on its northern, lakeward side (Platform 2). The aim of this season's work was to investigate the indications of internal divisions on Platform 1, and to ascertain its relationship with Platform 2. . . .The cutting extended into Platform 2 to the north indicates that both platforms were constructed at the same time. This portion of Platform 2 did not reveal any structural features other than a lightly made perimeter of stones loosely clustered together.’ (Brady 1993, 61, no. 180; Farrell and Brady n.d., 6)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 31 January 2013
References
Farrell, R.T. and Brady, N. n.d. Recent research on crannogs in the Irish midlands: the Crannog Archaeology Project (CAP). Unpublished paper, SMR file LF011-035----, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Brady, N. 1993 Robinstown. Stone Platform. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1992: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 61. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.