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Ringfort - rath

Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knightswood, 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
Knightswood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60123, -7.37284
SMR number
WM012-021----

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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 the N face of the summit of a prominent hill in grassland, overlooked by higher ground to W. A large circular-shaped, slightly raised area (approx. diam. 43m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank with a slight fosse and entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at S. The bank is best preserved from ESE-S-SW (Wth 3.7m; Int. H 0.1m at E), and is fragmentary or levelled to a slight scarp elsewhere. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running across the interior from NE-SW. A field fence running NNW-SSE originally intersected the monument from NE-E. The site is now almost completely surrounded by a quarry which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 November 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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