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Ringfort - rath

Faughalstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Faughalstown, 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
Faughalstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.65829, -7.33275
SMR number
WM007-029----

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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 in pasture-land on the NE face side of a high prominent ridge which runs NW-SE, with extensive views from NW-N-E. Ringfort (WM007-030----) 280m to SE. A circular area (approx. diam. 28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank, narrow shallow fosse, best preserved at S and almost completely filled in elsewhere. Possible entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at NE. The interior slopes appreciably from SW-NE, and contains a series of banks and a long sub-rectangular depression which could be the remains of a possible hut site or the result of post-medieval quarrying.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1975.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 12 April 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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