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Ringfort - rath

Sheefin, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Sheefin, 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
Sheefin
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.59234, -7.29345
SMR number
WM012-132----

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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 S facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland, with good views to the SE and SW. Ringfort (WM012-133---) 70m to ESE. This site has been almost completely levelled and is now only visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. Described in 1970 as consisting of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m NW-SE; 30.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NNW-N-E. The slight external fosse is only visible from S-NW. A field fence curves along the perimeter of the site from N-E.

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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