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Ringfort - rath

Ballynameagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynameagh, 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
Ballynameagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.71792, -7.34888
SMR number
WM003-030----

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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 natural hillock on a N-S ridge with good views of undulating countryside. Rock of Curry and Hill of Mael visible to the NE & ENE respectively. A large sub-circular area (approx. diam. 57m N-S; 51m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank with traces of an external fosse visible only from E-SE. No clear entrance feature visible. Several gaps in the bank all of which appear to modern in appearance. The enclosing bank is best preserved from SE-E-SW. Evidence of intern stone facing of bank at W and N. The interior slopes from the centre to the E. Old cultivation ridges can be seen running E-W across the interior of the monument. Well preserved cultivation ridges and small field system of uncertain antiquity can be seen immediately N and NW of ringfort. This field system is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.

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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