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Ringfort - rath

Lismacaffry, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lismacaffry, 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
Lismacaffry
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.71533, -7.45857
SMR number
WM002-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 ESE facing slope of low rise of ground with excellent views to N, E & SSE. Circular area (diam. 35m) defined by a low bank of earth and stones which has been steepened from SSE-S-SW where it forms part of a modern field boundary with wide steep flat bottomed fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. Large portions of the enclosing bank has been quarried away at NNW & ENE. The ground outside the bank has been disturbed by quarrying also on the W. Slight traces of old cultivation ridges aligned NNE-SSW running across the interior.

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

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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