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Ringfort - rath

Ballymanus, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballymanus, 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
Ballymanus
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73513, -7.28905
SMR number
WM003-010----

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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 low round-topped natural rise surrounded by gently undulating and hilly land of poor to average pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map with farm buildings immediately to S and W. On this map a field boundary running N-S is shown intersecting the perimeter of the monument at E. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map only curving field boundary to the N of two farm buildings represents the S enclosing element of this ringfort. A sub-circular shaped area (diam. 22m) defined by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or entrance feature. The interior is uneven rising very slightly from the perimeter towards the centre.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 December 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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