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Ringfort - rath

Carn (Fore By., Collure ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carn, 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
Carn (Fore By., Collure ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.68831, -7.33298
SMR number
WM003-090----

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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 a slight rise of ground on the landscaped demesne of Pakenham Hall located 670m to SSE. Ringfort (WM003-089---) 260m to W. Depicted as a rectangular shaped tree plantation and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank and a wide external fosse. The fosse is visible from E-SW, and joins a more recent field fence at W. A narrow rectangular enclosure, probably part of a tree plantation is visible outside the monument to the S. It is possible that this ringfort was altered to form a tree-ring, part of the landscaping works associated with the nearby Pakenham Hall.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 May 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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