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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
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.73218, -7.27232
SMR number
WM003-020----

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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 SE facing slope of steep hillock. Ringfort (WM003-017----; WM003-018----) 180m to N, ringfort (WM003-019----) immediately to NW and ringfort (WM003-021----) 50m to SSE. Depicted as a circular shaped ringfort on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and as a partial enclosure on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. On this latter map only the arc of the enclosing bank bank is depicted from N-E. Present remains consist of a tree-lined curving bank upstanding only from N-E-SE, slight traces of an external fosse at E only with possible evidence of a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SE. Originally the monument consisted of a small circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank with external fosse and causewayed entrance at SE. The W half of the monument was partially levelled between 1837 and 1911.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 21 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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