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Ringfort - rath

Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan, 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
Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.66995, -7.53650
SMR number
WM006-006----

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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 natural rise surrounded by gently undulating pasture-land, with bog land c. 800m to the W and NW. Earthwork (WM005-001----) 190m to E. Ringfort (WM006-004----) 160m to NNW. Ringfort (WM006-005----) 190m NE. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 31.5m N-S; 29m E- W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with a possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at ESE. The bank has been steepened from W-NW-N, where it forms part of the townland boundary with Windtown North. The slightly raised interior slopes from SW-NE and has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run NE-SW. A post-1700 field fence runs onto the perimeter of the site at SE. Site and field fence at SE has been levelled, and is now visible only as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe Aerial Photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 20 January 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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