Earthwork in Ringstown, County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Situated on the E shoreline of Lough Derravaragh, immediately W of the townland boundary with Streamstown, in the S corner of the townland of Ringstown. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork (diam. c. 38m) on the 1st. ed. OSi 6-inch map, but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OSi historic maps. Faint outline of cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2022

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM007-085

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What survives: Recorded monument

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Jeanne dArc at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Peter Gavigan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
fr:Gavigan:Knockdrin_a.jpg/Knockdrin_a.jpg, Wikimedia Commons · GFDL
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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