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Ringfort - rath

Paddinstown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Paddinstown 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
Paddinstown Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.56804, -7.58243
SMR number
WM010-027----

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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 slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with an external fosse. The inner bank is fragmentary, best preserved from NNE-NE & S. The outer bank is visible though fragmentary from E-S-W, and elsewhere has been replaced by a field fence. There is a wide flat intervening space between the banks where they are visible. An L-shaped depression in the interior may represent a souterrain (WM010-027001-). Two lengths of a grass covered bank to the W of centre of the interior may represent a rectangular house site (WM010-027002-), while a second house site (WM010-027003-) is visible in the NE quadrant.

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.

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