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Ringfort - rath

Ballintue, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, 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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.57801, -7.54597
SMR number
WM010-034----

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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 surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views from SW-W-N-NE. Described in 1972 as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 28m NNE-SSW) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and an intervening fosse. There are traces of dry stone walling and upright slabs forming a revetment in places on the internal face of the inner bank. The fosse and outer bank are visible from SSE-S-W. S of the centre of the interior is a deep depression, possibly indicating the site of a souterrain (WM010-034001-). The site has been subsequently levelled and is only barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

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

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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