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Ringfort - rath

Reynella, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Reynella, 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
Reynella
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.57246, -7.17359
SMR number
WM013-085----

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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 NE facing slope of a natural hillock with stream immediately to NE. Well preserved bivallate ringfort consisting of a raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 28m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank is fragmentary and poorly preserved (Wth 4.8m; H 0.7m), the fosse is best preserved at SW (Wth 4.2m) and the outer bank is very low (Wth 2.7m; H 0.15m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) and causeway across the fosse (Wth 3.1m; H 0.5m) at E. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. A linear earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; max. H 0.8m) runs across the NW quadrant towards the centre, where it intersects a rectangular hut site (WM013-085001-) and a possible second circular hut site (WM013-085002-).

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

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 July 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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