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Ringfort - rath

Lakill And Moortown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lakill And Moortown, 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
Lakill And Moortown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.67743, -7.25734
SMR number
WM007-012----

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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 rise of ground in undulating pasture-land. Lough Lene 700m to SE. A barrow-cemetery consisting of seven barrows (WM007-014----; WM007-016----; WM007-017----; WM007-018----; WM007-015----; WM007-015001-) approx. 370m to E. Levelled monument which appears as a crop mark on OSI aerial photographs taken 2005 and digital globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Field boundaries immediately to W of monument as depicted on OS 6-inch maps have also been levelled. Described by the ASI in 1976 as a sub-circular area (approx. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse from W-NW and at NE. Wide entrance gap at E, possibly widened in recent times. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE, with traces of cultivation ridges. Modern field fence running alongside monument on the W.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

See attached profile section of levelled monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1976.

Date of upload: 11 April 2017

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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