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Ringfort - rath

Rathcaled, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathcaled, 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
Rathcaled
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.57572, -7.59021
SMR number
WM010-023----

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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 top of a small gently rising hill, surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with excellent views in all directions. The Irishtown River which marks the boundary with Paddinstown Lower is 140m to S. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at SSE. The bank is visible from SE-SW, and elsewhere has been levelled. A post-1837 field fence running N-S intersects the monument at SW, and a post-1837 road forms the perimeter of the monument from W-NNW. A long irregular rough surfaced mound of earth and stones with its long axis ENE-WSW is visible across much of the N quadrant of the interior. Two depressions in the W quadrant appear to represent the remains of a souterrain (WM010-023001-). A small mound in the NW quadrant is probably the remains of a trigonometrical station marking the spot height 235 ft. which is depicted on all editions of the 6-inch OS maps.

See attached sketch plan of monument.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 June 2017

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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