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Ringfort - rath

Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Monkstown, 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
Monkstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.59195, -7.26361
SMR number
WM012-151----

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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 top of a high hillock in grassland, with good views of surrounding undulating countryside. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks and an intervening fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 5m) at E. There are modern gaps in the bank at N, WNW, SW & SSW.. The inner bank is low and fragmentary, and the fosse is slight. The outer bank is low, and best preserved from S-NW and has been removed by a road at S and a field fence at NE. The interior slopes towards the E, and contains several humps and hollows, but do not form a recognisable pattern. A modern gap in the bank at WNW reveals the bank to be composed of earth & small stones.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 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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