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Ringfort - rath

Milkernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Milkernagh, 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
Milkernagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Partially indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.73040, -7.43814
SMR number
WM002-002----

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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 a very slight rise in average pasture land overlooking a wide area of bog to the N & E. A stream flows to the N & NE of the site. The site is very overgrown and covered in scrub woodland making detailed examination impossible. Large roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 44m NW-SE; 58m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a high scarp (H 0.7-1.3m) which in places has been modified where it forms modern field boundaries. A shallow fosse probably part of the field boundary can be traced from N to E and from SW to WNW. The perimeter and part of the interior is badly overgrown with blackthorn bushes. The interior has slight remains of old cultivation ridges running NE-SW. In the NE part of the ringfort more modern cultivation ridges run NW-SE.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 21 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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