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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.65757, -7.30926
SMR number
WM007-032----

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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 70m to NE and E. Ringfort (WM007-031----) 140m to NW. A sub-circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 51m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse, which survives from S-W-N-NE only. Elsewhere the monument has been quarried away and the bank and fosse have been replaced by later banks and depressions along much of the E sector of the site. The raised interior has also been quarried into at E. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this ringfort is depicted as a circular earthwork accessed by a pathway at N with gravel pit in S quadrant of earthwork. The circular earthwork was annotated as a 'Fort & G. Pit' on the OS Fair Plan map. It is likely that the morphology of this ringfort was modified by post-medieval gravel 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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