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Ringfort - unclassified

Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Portnashangan, 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
Portnashangan
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.58726, -7.38221
SMR number
WM012-087----

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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 slight rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ecclesiastical enclosure (WM012-086002-), Portnashangan Church (WM012-086---) and graveyard (WM012-086001-) 60m to W. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure and annotated ‘fort’. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the monument is depicted as an irregular shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 60m E-W; 50m N-S) intersected by field boundary at E. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Faint crop mark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 16 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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