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Ringfort - unclassified

Mountmurray, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Mountmurray, 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
Mountmurray
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.59742, -7.43047
SMR number
WM011-061----

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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 natural rise in undulating grassland, on the demesne lands of Mount Murray House located 540m to SSE. The tree-lined earthwork visible on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map was located immediately W to the avenue leading up to Mount Murray with gate lodge 115m to N. Lough Owel is visible 320m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. No surface remains of this levelled monument. At the time of the site visit in 1972 the field had been ploughed and all was visible was a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 29.4m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) with remains of a shallow fosse (Wth 8.2m; D 0.3m) from ESE-S-NNW. The interior slopes slightly from WSW-ENE and contains scatters of burnt stone, bone and teeth. This levelled site is visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 August 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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