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Ringfort - rath

Glebe (Corkaree By., Taghmon ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glebe, 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
Glebe (Corkaree By., Taghmon ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60060, -7.26074
SMR number
WM012-078----

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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 NE facing slope of a steep hill in grassland, with good views to NE. Ringfort (WM012-075----) 40m to N, motte and bailey (WM012-079---) 160m to S, Taghmon church (WM012-076----) and castle (WM012-074----) 360m and 490m to W respectively. Depicted as a ringfort on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing alongside the avenue to the Glebe House. No depicted on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The road which marks the boundary with the townland of Foxburrow lies 25m to N.
All that remains of this much degraded monument is a slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 29m NE-SW) enclosed by a fosse which is barely visible at NW and ENE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior, which rises towards the centre. A section of the perimeter from N-ENE has been quarried away. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 February 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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