Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Streamstown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streamstown (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.43555, -7.58631
- SMR number
- WM031-033----
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 gently rising ground, in pasture. Ringfort (WM031-034----) lies c. 95m to NE. Annotated 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork cut by a trackway across the SW sector. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular semicircular-shaped field boundary. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a low bank with traces of an external fosse. A trackway cuts across the SW sector of the monument, where the perimeter has been levelled. The interior is relatively level and featureless, apart from a boulder in the W quadrant. Levelled monument is visible today as a vague semicircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 November 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.