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Ringfort - rath

Ballinphort, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinphort, 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
Ballinphort
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.63060, -7.35777
SMR number
WM007-071----

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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 at the base of NE facing slope of high hill in pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-078----) 105m to SSE. Ringfort (WM007-079---) 195m SSE. This has been almost completely levelled. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as ‘fort’, and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch maps as a circular-shaped enclosure. This is a sub-circular area (approx. dims 19m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank (H 0.35m) and a very slight external fosse (Wth 7m). The interior slopes from SW-NE. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 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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