Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Higginstown (fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Higginstown (fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43881, -7.38148
- SMR number
- WM033-004----
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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
Only a short curving section of a cropmark or vegetation stain marks the location of a ringfort that was levelled during land improvement works carried out c.1956. Monument was located on a slight rise of ground with possible ringfort (WM033-003----) located 160m to the NW. Depicted as a large subrectangular shaped-enclosure or possible ringfort (dims. c. 50m NNW-SSE; c. 33m E-W) defined by an enclosing bank on the revised edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.