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Ringfort - rath

Tonashammer, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tonashammer, 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
Tonashammer
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.73242, -7.24034
SMR number
WM004-002----

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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 natural rise of ground on poorly drained grassland with Lough Doo 90m to SE. Motte and bailey castle (WM004-001---) 520m to N. A sub-circular slightly raised area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (approx. Wth 4.5m), enclosed by a shallow fosse visible from W-NW only with a low bank outside this. No trace of a fosse on other sides of the ringfort. A gap (Wth 1.9m) in the bank at NE may represent the entrance. The outline of a circular hut site (WM004-002001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. Depressions and hollows in the uneven interior appear to be due to modern disturbance. An earthen bank of unknown antiquity sub-divides the NW quadrant of the ringfort interior.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 12 December 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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