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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
Outlined
Coordinates
53.59765, -7.37526
SMR number
WM012-026----

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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 SE face of a high hill in grass-land, overlooking Ballynafid Lake 450m to the SW. Ringfort (WM012-027---) 250m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a large circular-shaped enclosure annotated as ‘Rathmharaga’. An unusually large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 56m N-S; 59m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is best preserved from W-N and from SE-SSE and almost completely levelled elsewhere. The fosse is best preserved from WSW-N-NE. Portion of the perimeter has been quarried away at E. There is a possible entrance gap at ESE, which has been widened to provide access for farm machinery. The interior slopes appreciably from NW-SE. The bank has been steepened from N-SE to form part of a moden field boundary. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the monument at W.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 December 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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