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Ringfort - rath

Glascarn, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Glascarn, 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
Glascarn
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.52233, -7.48772
SMR number
WM018-112----

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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 undulating pasture, with fairly good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM018-124----) lies c. 90m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork abutting the public road to ESE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork truncated by a field boundary to NNE and the public road to ESE.
Monument described in 1980 as an oval-shaped enclosure (dims. 34m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by a bank and external fosse with no entrance gap visible. The low bank of earth and stone is visible from E-S-W-WNW and there is internal stone facing from S-SSE. The bank has been reduced to a low scarp from WNW-N-E. A wide, deep fosse survives from S-W-NW and is shallow from NW-N where it is partially infilled. The fosse is absent from E-S where it is truncated by the public road which runs NE-SW just E of the site. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope. A modern field fence runs roughly NW-SE across the monument just N of centre. Monument visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 08 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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