Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Walterstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43975, -7.37510
- SMR number
- WM033-006----
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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
Depicted as a circular enclosure possibly a ringfort, on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map which where it is shown located immediately to the NE of a small quarry or gravel pit. On this map a small limekiln appears to be shown built into the N side of the ringfort. On the Ordnance Survey Fair Plan this monument is annotated as ‘Fort’ and ‘Gravel Pit’. The monument is not indicated on the revised 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map. The site of this possible ringfort was inspected in 1976 and described as a destroyed monument of which only a large shallow oval-shaped depression survives which appears t be the remains of a disused gravel pit. The field has been recently ploughed and planted. No archaeological features visible.' (SMR file).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 02 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.