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Ringfort - rath

Dalystown (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dalystown, 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
Dalystown (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.51795, -7.59470
SMR number
WM017-095----

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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 gentle E-facing slope, in pasture with good views to N and NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 31m N-S; 27m E-W) with townland boundary immediately to S. Depicted on the revised 1913 OS 25-inch map as a modified roughly oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 32.5m E-W; 31m N-S) truncated at N by a post-1837 field boundary running NE-SW across NW quadrant.
Described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with a wide shallow fosse, slight counterscarp bank and causewayed entrance at ESE. The bank is reduced to a scarp in places and is very eroded. It has been modified from WNW-N-NNE where it has been straightened slightly to form part of a post-1837 field bank. The fosse is visible from NE-E-S. A gap in the inner bank (basal Wth 1.9m; top Wth 3.6m), a causeway (basal Wth 6m; top Wth 1.8m; H 0.1m) and a corresponding gap (basal Wth 2m; top Wth 4.3m) in the counterscarp at ESE represent a causewayed entrance. The interior has a slight E-facing slope and a modern lean-to hut occupies the SW quadrant. The ground immediately outside the scarp has been quarried away. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 24 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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