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Ringfort - rath

Garrysallagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garrysallagh, 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
Garrysallagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59749, -7.33225
SMR number
WM012-051----

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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 N face of a small ridge with restricted views on all sides. A small lake lies 60m to N. The road which marks the boundary with Galmoylestown Lower is 15m to NE. Ringfort (WM012-050---) 65m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’. The site was not depicted on any subsequent edition of the OS 6-inch maps. The monument has been largely levelled and is visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. On this aerial photograph cropmark of a possible rectangular annexe is visible at NE with linear earthwork possibly a sunken way visible immediately to S. The ringfort was described in 1970 as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. dims 39m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) enclosed by the remains of a poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. From WSW-NNW the bank has been reduced to a scarp.

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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