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Ringfort - rath

Ballygarvey, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballygarvey, 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
Ballygarvey
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Dotted outline
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.63006, -7.55733
SMR number
WM005-013----

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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 top of a low ridge, on poorly drained land. Concentric enclosure (WM005--014----) 470m to ENE, ringfort (WM005-016----) 225m to SW, ringfort (WM005-011----) 160m to W. A roughly D-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a very low bank from SE-S-W-N, with traces of a slight fosse from ENE-E-S. There is a suggestion of an outer bank and vague traces of a second fosse outside this from SSW-W-N. The site has been intersected by post-1700 field boundaries at NE and SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped with straight side at NE where it formed a field boundary. There are hollow depressions the result of quarrying activity visible at ENE, N & NE. No sign of an entrance feature. The interior is level, with traces of post-1700 cultivation ridges roughly running NE-SW across the monument.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 19 December 2016

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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