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Ringfort - unclassified

Barbavilla Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Barbavilla Demesne, 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
Barbavilla Demesne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64055, -7.21490
SMR number
WM008-115----

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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

A circular-shaped earthwork is depicted on an estate map of Barbavilla Demesne where it is shown standing inside a woodland plantation (NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (009) ). Local area annotated 'Clondavreen' on the OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument, no surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 19 July 2019

References

NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (009) - National Library of Ireland, A map of Barbavilla demense in the barony of Fore and County of Westmeath. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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