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Ringfort - rath

Balrath (Fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Balrath, 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
Balrath (Fore By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.74129, -7.31909
SMR number
WM001-033----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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 a slight rise of ground, at the NE foot of a high hill on good pasture-land with poorly drained land to N & NE. Roughly raised oval-shaped area (diam. 25m N-S; 22.8m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank best preserved at SW elsewhere reduced to a scarp and an external fosse with entrance gap (base Wth 1.6m; top Wth 6.7m) at SW. The interior is uneven and contains a small natural mound now partially quarried away. Laneway running N-S intersects perimeter of site at E.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 17 November 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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