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Ringfort - rath

Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Skeagh More, 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
Skeagh More
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53773, -7.57276
SMR number
WM017-048----

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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 E-facing slope, overlooked by hill to SE, in undulating pasture. Possible souterrain (WM017-047----) lies c. 82m to NW. Visible as an oval-shaped tree-lined area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Depicted as a circular-shaped ringfort on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a slightly distorted irregular or roughly D-shaped platform (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) defined by a scarp.
Monument described in 1971 as a large, oval-shaped raised area or platform (41m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank mainly reduced to a steep scarp. The bank is best preserved at SE and is very fragmentary or denuded to a scarp elsewhere. There is evidence of internal stone facing in places where the bank is upstanding. The slight remains of an external fosse are visible from ESE-SE-S. No entrance feature visible. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope with some traces of cultivation ridge visible.

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

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

Date of upload: 07 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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