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Ringfort - rath

Culleen Beg, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Culleen Beg, 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 Beg
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.54849, -7.33360
SMR number
WM019-037----

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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 small steep hillock, in gently undulating, rough pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a bank, intervening fosse with traces of an outer bank. A gap (Wth at top 7m; basal Wth 3.8m) at E may represent the entrance, although there is no definite trace of a causeway. The fosse and outer bank have been removed either side of this. The enclosing inner bank is high and steep and the intervening fosse (Wth at top 3.9m; basal Wth 2m; D 0.35m) is wide and deep with a flat base. There are very slight traces of an outer bank (Wth 2.3m; H 0.5m) which is almost indistinguishable from the surrounding hillslope. The western half of the interior is occupied by a modern hay barn. The remains of a partially quarried, semi-circular annexe adjoins the outer bank at N. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a tree-planted earthwork.

See attached rough sketch plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1972

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

Date of upload: 03 April 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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