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Ringfort - rath

Balrath (Corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Balrath, 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
Balrath (Corkaree By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.54248, -7.57935
SMR number
WM017-038----

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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 immediately NNE of a modern farmyard. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area encircled by a single row of trees. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 28m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a bank with external fosse, the bank is reduced to a scarp from WSW-W-N where monument has been incorporated into a field boundary. The monument appears to be used as a paddock within a modern farmyard as shown on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Monument described in 1975 as a subcircular-shaped area (diam. 45m) defined by an earth and stone bank which has been reduced to a scarp with the remains of a shallow external fosse. There is a possible entrance gap (base Wth 2m; top Wth 4.3m) at NE, with a number of modern gaps elsewhere. The external fosse is not visible from WSW-W-NNW where a modern field fence has been built up against the bank. The interior has a gentle NE-facing slope.

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

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

Date of upload: 05 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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