Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Oldtown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40878, -7.31623
- SMR number
- WM033-046----
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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
On a low natural rise of ground in gently undulating pasture. Levelled ringfort consisting of a large oval shaped area (diam. c. 56m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW defined by a cropmark visible on the ground as a narrow zone (Wth 4m) of differential vegetation growth. Patches of gravelly earth visible in the interior of the monument may mark the site of a levelled house. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure, the E side of which is intersected by a townland boundary between Oldtown and Farthingstown (Fartullagh By.) running N-S, on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Marked 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan map of the parish of Castlelost (SMR File).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.