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Ringfort - rath

Sheskernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Sheskernagh, 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
Sheskernagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.73539, -7.26511
SMR number
WM003-022----

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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 in modern woodland plantation on top of natural rise with good views in all directions now obscured by the forest. A raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 27m WNW-ESE) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse (approx. Wth 1.5m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 2.7m) at NE. The inner bank (ext. H 1.8m; int. H 0.3m) of earth and stone has evidence of stone revetment along the internal face while the outer bank (Wth 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) has evidence of external stone facing. The outer bank has been removed on both sides of the entrance. The interior has a general slight slope rising towards the centre. An OPW report from 1966 suggested the possibility that this earthwork may have been the remains of a tree-ring of post 1700 date (OPW field report, 03/03/1966).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 3 January 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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