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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
Outlined
Coordinates
53.58817, -7.37317
SMR number
WM012-090----

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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 N facing slope of a ridge in grassland, to the N of a farm yard, overlooking Ballynafid Lake 360m to NW. Ringfort (WM012-091----) 155m to E. An unusually large circular shaped area (approx. diam. 54m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank has been levelled from NE-E-SE, and the outer face of the bank has been lined with dry-stone walling from SSE-SSW. The external fosse is visible from SSW-NW. A large hay barn has been built in the SE quadrant of the interior, and a wide trackway crosses the interior E-W, cutting through the enclosing bank at W, where a gate has been erected. The interior slopes gently towards N.

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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