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Ringfort - rath

Drinmore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drinmore, 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
Drinmore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.55697, -7.29815
SMR number
WM019-020----

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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 base of a SW-facing slope of a high ridge, in rough pasture, with good views to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped earthwork. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map.
Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 52m NW-SE; 50m NE-SW) enclosed by a well-defined scarp and a fosse. The scarp (approx. H 1.2m) is slightly defaced at SE and there is a slight depression at SW that may represent the entrance (Wth at top 12m; basal Wth 7m). There is a slight shallow fosse from S-W-WNW. The perimeter is obscured by the corner of a field boundary at NW. A modern depression running NW-SE from this corner crosses the NW quadrant of the interior. Levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a circular-shaped cropmark defined by differential growth which appears to delineate a backfilled fosse.

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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