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Ringfort - rath

Whitewood, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Whitewood, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Whitewood
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisiniska
Latest-edition OS map
Lisiniska
Coordinates
53.84258, -6.77702
SMR number
ME005-051----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Situated on a fairly level landscape with slightly higher ground to the N and E, and on the N side of the ENE-WSW avenue to Whitewood House. It is described as ‘Lisaniska’ from Lios an Uisce – the Water Lios – on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 57.8m N-S; 52.4m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank, best preserved (Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.7m) ESE-WSW with an outer fosse or drain (at N: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.5m), and traces of an outer bank (Wth 3.3m; ext. H 0.9m) SSW-WSW. There are many entrances through the bank but only that at NW (Wth of base 1.7m) has a causeway (Wth of top 2.2m; H 0.6m). An ENE-WSW field bank and drain cut the monument towards the perimeter at S, and it is better preserved S of this feature. It remains unplanted in a forest (Digitalmap).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 4 September 2018
Amended: 1`4 December 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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