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Ringfort - rath

Rathcreevagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathcreevagh, 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
Rathcreevagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.70808, -7.32328
SMR number
WM003-059----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 SW facing slope of a small hill in good pasture land with good views to NW but restricted elsewhere. Lady Well (WM003-098---) 420m to NNE, ringfort (WM003-063----) 545m to E, and second ringfort (WM003-060----) 260m to SSE. A sub-circular area (38m N-S; 39.5m E-W) is delimited by the remains of a substantial earth and stone bank with traces of a wide fosse outside it. The fosse has been partially disturbed by quarrying. The bank is denuded from SE-S-W and the fosse is visible only from NW-N-E-SSE. A modern field bank and hedge runs NW-SE just outside the perimeter from NW-N, and has defaced the outer face of the fosse there. No indication of the original entrance. The interior slopes from N-S and traces of cultivation ridges can be seen running E-W run across the interior of the monument.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 28 November 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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