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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60051, -7.33969
SMR number
WM012-046----

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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 SSW face of a steep hill in grassland, with good views to the S and W. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’ with a gravel pit shown on its S side. No surface remains visible of levelled site visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Monument was upstanding in 1973 when it was described as a circular slightly raised area (approx. diam. 39m NW-SE) enclosed by a wide low bank and external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.1m). Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior. The perimeter of the monument has been quarried away on the SW side. The field fence which formed the boundary with Galmoylestown Lower originally ran in a N-S direction along the perimeter of the monument on its E side.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 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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