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Ringfort - rath

Cartroncroy, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cartroncroy, 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
Cartroncroy
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.51777, -7.83578
SMR number
WM015-018----

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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 top of a prominent natural rise in gently undulating grassland, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) with a field bank on the N and trees on the perimeter, annotated as ‘fort’. The curving field fence from N-E-S follows the line of the perimeter of the ringfort, elsewhere the enclosing element has been levelled to a slight scarp. There are traces of a slight fosse visible at N. The interior slopes slightly from W-E. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 6 September 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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