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Ringfort - rath

Robinstown (Delvin By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Robinstown, 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
Robinstown (Delvin By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.63594, -7.19545
SMR number
WM008-084----

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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 SSE facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside, with excellent views from NE-E-S-SW. Ringfort (WM008-085----) 450m to SW. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 48m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank is substantial. The fosse is best preserved from SSW-SW-WSW, and filled in elsewhere. The low outer bank is visible only at W & N. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3.9m) at ESE, and another at NW (Wth 1.4m). The interior slopes from NW-SE, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run NNW-SSE. In the SE quadrant a sharp depression is visible. Field fences intersect the monument at NE & SE. A post 1837 roadway curves around the site along the line of the fosse from NW-SW-S.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 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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