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Ringfort - rath

Parsonstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Parsonstown, 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
Parsonstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59467, -7.30591
SMR number
WM012-065----

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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 SE facing slope of ridge with good views to SE, ringfort (WM012-064----) 60m to NW. Oval shaped area (approx. diam. 49m WNW-ESE; 43m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) with suggestions of an external fosse visible from NW-S-SSE. A modern field fence & trench run outside the scarp from N-W-SW. The interior slopes appreciably SE. Now visible as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Curving field boundary visible from SW-W-N follows the line of the enclosing bank.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 6 March 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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