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Ringfort - rath

Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, 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
Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Raheen
Latest-edition OS map
Raheen
Coordinates
53.59327, -7.50150
SMR number
WM011-079----

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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 gentle ESE slope, surrounded by gently undulating grass-land with good views to the SE. Site of levelled sweathouse (WM011-078----) 50m to SW. Depicted as a small mound on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘Ratheen or Site of Gallows’. Depicted as a small mound on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. All that remains are the grass covered wall footings (Wth 1.7m; H 0.4m) of a rectangular house (diam. 4.9m NNW-SSE; 5.2m ENE-WSW) which may have stood in the W quadrant of a ringfort. This site appears to have been levelled and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. There are slight kinks in the field boundaries to W & E, which may indicate the presence of a circular enclosure or possible ringfort (approx. diam. 40m E-W).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 18 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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