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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
53.58144, -7.45290
SMR number
WM011-100----

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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 NW facing slope overlooked by nearby ridge to the SE, with good views to the W & N. Templeoran Church (WM011-099----) and graveyard (WM011-099001-) 600m to WSW. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a external slight fosse, an intervening space (Wth 5.5m) and an outer fosse. The inner fosse is best preserved from ESE-S-W. The outer fosse is only visible from E-S-SW. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at NE. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE and has vague traces of broad cultivation ridges which run NW-SE. A rectangular mound (WM011-100001-) is visible in the interior which may be the remains of a collapsed house site. A field drain aligned NW-SE runs past the site at NE, possibly intersecting the outer fosse, while a field fence running NNW-SSE intersects the perimeter of the monument from SW-W.

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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