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Ringfort - rath

Freaghmore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Freaghmore, 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
Freaghmore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.69912, -7.28547
SMR number
WM003-072----

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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 the E face of a slight slope in gently undulating grassland, with good views to the E. The road which forms the townland boundary with Millcastle is 10m to N. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is substantial, the fosse is wide and U-shaped, and the outer bank is slight and poorly preserved, and has been reduced to a scarp from E-S. There is an entrance gap in the inner bank at E (Wth 4m) and a causeway across the fosse (Wth 5m; H 0.45m), with an earthen bank (H 0.95m; Wth 3.1m) visible along the N side of the causeway, which appears to be part of the outer bank which curves inwards at this point. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior, which has a gentle slope in the same direction.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 22 May 2017

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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