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Ringfort - rath

Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, 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
53.59038, -7.37351
SMR number
WM012-089----

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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 NW face of a ridge in grassland, overlooking Ballynafid Lake 180m to the NW. Ringfort (WM012-088----) 80m to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork with trees on the perimeter and annotated as ‘fort’. A modern road is now located on the site of the monument. Described in 1980 as a poorly preserved ringfort consisting of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 4.7m; H 0.4m) and shallow external fosse. The enclosing bank only survives from ESE-S and was reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The interior slopes gradually to the NNE.

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

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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