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Ringfort - rath

Tinode, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tinode, 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
Tinode
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.69190, -7.51821
SMR number
WM002-024----

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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

Depicted as a D-shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low NE facing slope of low rise on flat pasture with bogland now planted with trees nearby to NE. Ringfort (WM002-025----) 160m to SSE. D-shaped area (dims. 35m NE-SW; 28.5m NW-SE) with straight side at NW defined by a poorly preserved tree-lined earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-0.8m) with slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; ext. D 0.3m) at NNW. Bank has been ploughed out in NW. Gaps on NW, W & N and in SE - the latter may be original entrance. In the SW corner a very low artificially raised platform or irregular plan which may be a house site (WM002-024001-). There are two old ditch and bank features extending NE from the N & NE sides of site. The whole SE side of the site has been truncated by a modern ditch and field bank.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 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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