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Ringfort - rath

Davidstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Davidstown, 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
Davidstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.55267, -7.52085
SMR number
WM018-011----

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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

Represented on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map as a complete pear-shaped enclosure with the narrow end pointing to the E and partly truncated on its W side by a field boundary. The estimate original dimensions are c. 43m E-W by c. 37m N-S. That larger portion of the monument (i.e. to the SE of the field boundary) is represented as a series of single hachures, indicating a raised area, on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1910-13); the W component is not indicated. An inspection in 1990 recorded the monument as consisting of a sub-circular area bounded by a low earthen bank set on a low scarp: there was no evidence of a fosse. The section of the monument to the NW, beyond the boundary, had been removed. The interior of the surviving SE portion was uneven and part of the SW and W areas appeared to have been the subject of quarrying activities in the past. A souterrain (WM018-011001-) was discovered in the NW portion of the monument in 1990. Monument registered as a Historic Monument in 1990.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 11 November 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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