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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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.59525, -7.33176
SMR number
WM012-053----

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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 in a hollow between two ridges running NE-SW, in grassland with ringfort (WM012-052---) 80m to NNE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank and deep external fosse. The bank is best preserved from NNW-NE and has been reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The external fosse is best defined from W-NNE. A large quarry hole has been dug in the fosse at W. There are suggestions of a possible causewayed entrance and depression in the scarp at SE. The slightly dished interior slopes from N-S.

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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