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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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.72948, -7.27740
SMR number
WM003-025----

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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 the top of a slight but pronounced natural rise of ground with good views to S and W. A roughly circular area enclosed by a low earth and stone bank, with shallow fosse and external bank visible from N-NE and from SE-S-W only, with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.7m) at SSE. The ringfort is intersected at E by a roadway running N-S which destroys the enclosing elements of the monument on this side. In the N quadrant of the ringfort interior there is a low stony rise which possibly indicates the remains of a house site but this is uncertain. A crescent-shaped annexe defined by a low earthen bank adjoins the ringfort to the NW. A low L-shaped earthen bank in the S quadrant of the annexe defines a roughly square shaped area. This earthwork is too large to represent the remains of a house site. The interior of the annexe is much disturbed by cultivation ridges running ENE-W-SW. The interior of the ringfort is also disturbed by similar cultivation ridges

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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