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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
53.57036, -7.53062
SMR number
WM011-117----

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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 top of a prominent natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM011-118---) 350m to SE. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from ESE-SE, and is very slight or levelled elsewhere. The outer bank has been modified where if forms part of a field fence from N-E-SW and has traces of stone facing. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.9m) with a large stone set on edge on the N side in the inner bank at E, a causeway (Wth 4.8m; H 0.3m) across the fosse and gap in the outer bank represented by a modern gateway (Wth 2m). The interior rises towards the centre, where there is a very shallow circular depression which may represent a house site (WM011-117001-). In the NW quadrant a large stone (L 2m NNW-SSE; H 0.5m) set on edge is of unknown significance.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 28 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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