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Ringfort - cashel

Ballintue, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballintue, 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
Ballintue
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.57441, -7.55593
SMR number
WM010-033----

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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 natural rise in gently undulating grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small circular earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. Present remains consist of a circular shaped area (diam. 11.2m N-S; 12.5m E-W) enclosed by a dry stone wall (Wth 1m; H 0.8m). A collapsed L-shaped dry-stone wall (long portion 5m WSW-ENE; short portion 3.20m SSE-NW; Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m; T 0.5m) of uncertain date is visible in the interior.

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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