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Ringfort - rath

Loughanstown (Moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Loughanstown, 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 (Moygoish By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.66519, -7.51965
SMR number
WM006-013----

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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 prominent ridge. Hilltop enclosure (WM006-008----) 180m to NW. An unusually large circular shaped area (approx. diam. 55m N-S; 64m E-W) enclosed by a substantial bank and wide deep steep sided flat bottomed fosse. The enclosing bank has been steepened from NE-E-ESE to form part of a field fence, and defaced by quarrying at W. The external fosse has been filled in from E-SE. Possible entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SE. The interior slopes slightly from W-E, with traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE. Digital globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 indicates that the enclosing bank has been levelled or reduced to a low scarp from NNE-E-S-SSW and elsewhere has been incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 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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