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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
53.59848, -7.33447
SMR number
WM012-049----

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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

Sited on SSE facing slope of high ridge in gently undulating grassland with good views to the SW and W, a small lake lies 50m to NE. Ringfort (WM012-050----) 40m to SE. A circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 31m NW-SE) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide shallow external fosse. The bank is almost levelled from NNW-E, and the fosse is visible from SSE-WSW. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3.8m) at ESE. The interior slopes slightly to E. The monument is enclosed by a field fence from WSW-N, and intersected at SE by a post-1700 field fence running NE-SW. Monument clearly visible on aerial photographs taken by Cambridge University in 1968 and 1970 (CUCAP AVO056-057; BDV073).

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

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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