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Ringfort - rath

MacE, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, MacE, 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
MacE
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.63197, -7.53271
SMR number
WM006-041----

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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 low-lying wet pasture-land. Ringfort (WM006-040----) 130m to NE. Originally depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, but shown as a D-shaped area the SW quadrant of which is now truncated by a post-1700 field boundary on the revised 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a D-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp. A post-1700 field fence running NW-SE and a drain intersects the site at SW. There is no visible trace of the monument to the W of this field boundary. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior of the monument.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 31 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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