What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Streamstown (moycashel By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Streamstown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1910 edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map depicts the site as a subcircular-shaped earthwork with dimensions of approximately 37 metres from northeast to southwest and 40 metres from northwest to southeast. A 1973 account recorded the monument as levelled with no surface remains visible, and local information describes it as a small circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank.

Situated on a rise, in pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 37m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE). Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. According to local information, this was a small circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Levelled monument is visible today as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark on OSi aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 21 November 2019

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