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Ringfort - rath

Piercefield Or Templeoran, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Piercefield Or Templeoran, 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
Piercefield Or Templeoran
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.58889, -7.45354
SMR number
WM011-095----

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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 NNW facing slope in relatively low lying grassland, surrounded by hilly land from N-E-S. The stream which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield lies 25m to the N. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and wide shallow intervening fosse with a slight outer fosse. The outer bank and fosse are only visible from SW-S-SSE. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) in the inner bank at NW and a corresponding gap (Wth 1m) in the outer bank. Four house sites are visible in the interior (WM011-095001-/004-).

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 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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