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Ringfort - rath

Stonestown (Delvin By., Clonarney ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Stonestown, 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
Stonestown (Delvin By., Clonarney ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.63615, -7.09252
SMR number
WM009-032----

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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 steep natural hillock surrounded by undulating grassland. Depicted on the OS Fair Plan as a small oval enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been levelled. All that remains now is a short curving arc of poorly preserved earthen bank visible from SSE-S-W. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 17 May 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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