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Ringfort - rath

Grangestown (Fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grangestown, 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
Grangestown (Fore By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.65857, -7.31168
SMR number
WM007-031----

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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 a natural hillock in low lying wet pasture-land. Yellow River 130m to E. Ringfort (WM007-032----) 140m to SE. A sub-circular raised area (approx. dims. 40m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight fosse. The raised interior has been severely impacted by quarrying. A gravel pit associated with quarrying is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No antiquity is shown at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1875 ed. OS 6-inch map the possible monument is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork with a gravel pit in the NE quadrant of the interior with an access path entering the gravel pit at NE. This earthwork may be the result of post-medieval quarrying.

See attached section 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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