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Ringfort - rath

Money, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Money, County Westmeath, 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
Money
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.77040, -7.31915
SMR number
WM001-011----

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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)
  • 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

Situated on the SE facing slope near top of a hill with excellent views to the NW, N & NE. Monument overlooked by Mullaghmeen Hill to the ESE. Ringforts (WM001-010----; WM001-009----) 250m and 260m to S and SW respectively. Roughly circular area (diam. 26m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank poorly preserved from NW-N-E-SE with slight traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. The S quadrant of the ringfort interior is best preserved area. Post 1700 field boundary running N-S intersects W side of site. Second field boundary running N-S also intersects perimeter of monument E side. The interior of the ringfort slopes from W-E. The S perimeter of the monument is intersected by a stone wall & shallow fosse which forms part of a post-1700 field boundary. The ringfort appears to have enclosed on all sides by a earth and stone field boundary wall of probable post-1700 date.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 November 2016

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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