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Ringfort - rath

Culleen More, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Culleen More, 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
Culleen More
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.55537, -7.36111
SMR number
WM019-007----

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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 in gently undulating pasture, with poorly drained land to N, E and SE. Ringfort (WM019-006----) lies c. 200m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork bisected by a railway line.
Monument described in 1970 as a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) enclosed by a modern field bank from N-SE and from SSW-WNW. The monument has been bisected by a railway line running NW-SE and is much disturbed on either side. The remaining portions of the site would suggest it had a general NE-facing slope. A semi-circular quarry has been dug into the ridge across the surviving SW sector of the monument. The monument has been levelled across the NE sector. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped scrub-covered earthwork bisected by a railway line on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 18 February 2019

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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