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Ringfort - rath

Garraree, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garraree, 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
Garraree
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.58519, -7.31062
SMR number
WM012-137----

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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 the lower S facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland with good views to SE and SW. Ringfort (WM012-136---) 90m to SW. This site has been levelled, and is visible only as a cropmark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Described in 1970 as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) enclosed by a two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is low and wide (Wth 6.8m; H 0.4m), the wide fosse (Wth 5.4m) is visible from N-E-SE, and the low outer bank (Wth 1.9m; H 0.52m) arcs around the fosse. There is an entrance gap at S. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior, which slopes to the SSW. A field fence originally ran along the line of the perimeter from S-NW.

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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