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Ringfort - rath

Milltown (Fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Milltown, 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
Milltown (Fore By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.63863, -7.28535
SMR number
WM007-057----

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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 S face of rising ground with good views from E-S-W, overlooked by rising ground to the N and NE. River 180m to SW. Ringfort (WM007-056----) 270m to W. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a sub-rectilinear enclosure with trees on its perimeter. An ASI field report from 1974 described the N portion of the monument as being quarried away, leaving a wide bank and shallow fosse (diam. 40m E-W). The interior sloped from N-S. A second ASI report from 1975 described the monument as being completely levelled. Faint crop mark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 14 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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