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Ringfort - rath

Clonkeen (Moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clonkeen, 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
Clonkeen (Moygoish By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.66373, -7.45873
SMR number
WM006-023----

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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 the E side of a slight rise in pasture-land, with good views in all directions. Bog 135m to NE and 155m to SW. A sub-circular area (diam. 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a narrow shallow round-bottomed fosse, which has been filled in at S. The interior slopes gently from NW-SE. The site has been levelled since the site visits in 1975, 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: 30 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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