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Ringfort - unclassified

Ballygarvey, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, 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
Indicated as a quarry
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62769, -7.55970
SMR number
WM005-016----

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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 natural rise of rock outcrop in low lying poor pasture with good views, bogland 330m to S. A stream skirts the base of the natural rise on which the site is located from SSW-W-N. Ringfort (WM005-015----) 80m to NNW. An oval-shaped raised area (diam. 27m NE-SW; c. 21m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with no trace of a bank or fosse. No entrance feature visible. The interior has been greatly disturbed by quarrying. There is a good deal of stone visible in the scarp and around the site which appears to be natural rock outcrop. Depicted as a quarry and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated as a 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map. Visible as a circular shaped enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. An old field bank running roughly NW-SE runs onto the scarp at E. The S & SW end of the ridge has also been quarried into.

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.

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