Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown (Fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (Fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43534, -7.26103
- SMR number
- WM033-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise of ground in gently undulating pasture land. Gallstown House located 890m to the NW. Levelled monument visible on the ground as a cropmark (Wth 3m) of differential vegetation growth defining a roughly circular area (diam. c. 41m N-S; 39.2m E-W). A slight depression visible from S-W marks the outline of the levelled fosse. No other features visible. Recorded as a ringfort in 1956 when it was described as a small ringfort that was possibly modified as a tree-ring due to the presence of tree-stumps along the bank of the ringfort. The ringfort consisted of a circular area (diam. 38m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) only visible at N, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp and outer fosse (Wth 2.4m; ext. D 0.7m) (SMR File). Marked as a ‘Fort’ on the OS Fair Plan parish map of Pass of Kilbride (SMR File). Depicted as an antiquity on the 1818 townland map of Milltown (Boyd Belvedere Maps, WCL/M/BBE/22). Visible as a cropmark on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between 06-07 November 2011.
See attached document for image of cropmark visible on Bing Maps at www.bing.com/maps
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.