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Ringfort - rath

Moygrehan Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Moygrehan Lower, 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
Moygrehan Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.65364, -6.96610
SMR number
WM009-012----

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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 small prominent round topped hillock on the S facing slope of a small kidney-shaped ridge, in undulating grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks separated by an intervening fosse and external fosse. The site has been disturbed by post-1700 quarrying associated with lime-kiln built into SW quadrant of earthwork. This lime-kiln is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior. A roadway running E-W intersects the S perimeter of the monument as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.

See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 28 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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