Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Griffinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Griffinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47248, -7.14208
- SMR number
- WM027-059----
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 WSW side of a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to NNE, NE and E. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a penannular-shaped earthwork which is open to E. Monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.