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Ringfort - rath

Martinstown (Corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Martinstown, 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
Martinstown (Corkaree By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60663, -7.31810
SMR number
WM012-041----

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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 SE sloping ridge in grassland with good views from S-W. Ringfort (WM012-056---) 160m to NE. A large circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 45m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank and shallow external fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. The enclosing bank is best preserved from NE-E, elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. From SE-S-WSW it has been incorporated into a field fence. The interior slopes generally from NW-SE, and contains faint traces of NE-SW running cultivation ridges. Digital Globe aerial photograph of the monument taken November 2011 indicates that enclosing bank now only survives from SSE-S-W, elsewhere it has been levelled.

See attached profile 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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