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Ringfort - rath

Larkinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Larkinstown, 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
Larkinstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60367, -7.35002
SMR number
WM012-037----

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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

Small circular shaped ringfort now levelled was situated on the W face of a high ridge with wide views over hilly grassland from S-W-N. Monument is not indicated on an edition of the OS 6-inch maps but is visible on Cambridge University aerial photograph taken in 1966 (CUCAP APE034). A modern quarry access road (originally a field fence) road marks the boundary with the townland of Down 20m to W. Described in 1984 as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 23m NNW-SSE; 23m ENE-SSW) defined by a scarp and enclosed by a shallow external fosse. There is no real trace of an enclosing bank. The external fosse is visible from NNW-NNE and from SE-SSW. The interior slopes from NE-SW and a shallow depression is visible in the SW quadrant, probably the result of disturbance. A field fence intersects the E side of the monument. Monument appears to have been levelled and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 7 February 2018

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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