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Ringfort - rath

Portloman, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Portloman, 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
Portloman
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.56425, -7.41429
SMR number
WM018-022----

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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 at the N end of a prominent ridge, in wet pasture, with extensive views to N, S and towards Lough Owel to E. On the demesne lands of Portloman House which lies c. 240m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped, tree-plantation. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped, partially tree-planted feature. Not depicted as an antiquity on an y edition of the OS 6-inch maps but shown as a landscape feature on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps.
Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on oblique aerial photograph taken 17/07/1971 (CUCAP, BGH106). Levelled monument described in 1981 as an oval-shaped area (28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by very faint traces of an inner and possibly an outer bank with a narrow, shallow intervening fosse. No visible remains of an entrance feature. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope. Levelled monument visible today as an oval-shaped cropmark defined by an area of differential growth, on Digital Globe aerial photography. Possibly a ringfort landscaped as a tree-plantation on the demesne lands of Portloman House in the post-1700 period.

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

Date of upload: 11 January 2019

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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