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Ringfort - rath

Galmoylestown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Galmoylestown Lower, 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
Galmoylestown Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60341, -7.34275
SMR number
WM012-038----

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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 S face of a high hill in grassland, with excellent views from E-S-W. The townland boundary with Larkinstown is 10m to W, while the levelled field fence which forms the boundary with Down townland intersected the E-W perimeter of the monument. A small sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a slight earthen bank and a wide deep fosse. The bank is best preserved from NE-ESE, elsewhere it is fragmentary and almost completely levelled. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2m) and causeway at SSE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNE-SSW across the interior. Adjoining the monument on the N is a rectangular annexe (approx. dims. 6m N-S: 7m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank and external fosse. The E side of this annexe appears to have been levelled by a later field bank which crosses the rath fosse at NNE and continues to the N away from the site.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 February 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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