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Ringfort - rath

Curraghboy (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Curraghboy, 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
Curraghboy (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53860, -7.60816
SMR number
WM017-033----

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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 a slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with wet intervening hollows and having good views in all directions. The monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped, partially tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large oval-shaped area abutting a rectangular building to SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 32m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with distinct indentation at S, probably the result of quarrying.
Poorly preserved ringfort described in 1971 as a much modified, roughly subcircular-shaped area enclosed by a bank which has been reduced to a steep scarp. There is no visible trace of an external fosse. A large part of the site is now occupied by a T-shaped quarry hole which cuts through the scarp at S and W. A portion of the scarp has also been quarried out at NNE.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 03 December 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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