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Ringfort - rath

Ballyglass (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyglass, 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
Ballyglass (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53508, -7.53083
SMR number
WM018-088----

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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 SW-facing slope of a low rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with good views to W and NW. Enclosure (WM018-087----) and ringfort (WM018-086----) lie c. 165m to NW and c. 195m to SW, respectively. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a penannular-shaped earthwork, which is truncated by a field boundary to SE.
Monument described in 1970 as a small circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by the remains of a bank and external fosse. The earth and stone bank (Wth at top 0.8m; overall Wth 4.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.4m) is substantial, except where it is slight and denuded from N-E. It has the remains of an internal stone facing at SE, S and from SW-W. The original entrance is not recognisable. A slight shallow fosse is visible from SSW-SW-W. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. A modern earth and stone field fence skirts the exterior of the bank from ESE-SE-S, where it has the remains of a relatively modern stone facing. Monument is visible as a roughly-circular-shaped, partially tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 05 February 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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