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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
53.57017, -7.51955
SMR number
WM011-119----

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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 natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM011-118----) 380m to SW. Nunnery (WM011-121---) 135m to SE. A slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by a two poorly preserved earthen banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank has several disturbance gaps and has dry-stone walling on its inner face at ESE, and the outer counterscarp bank is fragmentary also. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) in the inner bank at S, a causeway (Wth 4.4m; H 0.3m) across the fosse and corresponding entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) in the outer bank. There is another possible entrance gap at E (Wth 1.4m). The interior rises towards the centre where an ESB pole has been erected, and a low mound which has been partially dug away exposing some small loose stones. Earthworks of uncertain date visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 to S & N, although the S earthworks may be an extension of the earthworks around castle (WM011-120---).

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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