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Ringfort - rath

Curraghmore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Curraghmore, 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
Curraghmore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53206, -7.29306
SMR number
WM019-064----

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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 top of a natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to E, S, W and NW and overlooked by higher ground to N and NNE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map as an irregular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a much disturbed subcircular-shaped area (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank. The bank is steep on the exterior and is best preserved from E-SSE and from W-WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A hole has been quarried into the perimeter at S. A modern curvilinear bank with a modern trench on its interior has been made against the inner face of the bank from S-WSW and has been straightened at WSW where it traverses the exterior of the bank. There is a wide shallow depression at the foot of the scarp from WSW-W-NNW which may represent a partly silted fosse, however it connects to the trench mentioned and may be modern. The perimeter is also disturbed from NNW-N-ENE where it is replaced by a modern field bank. A steep modern field fence running N-S intersects the bank at ESE. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope and a roughly circular depression (approx. diam. 4.5m) near the centre. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a roughly oval-shaped tree-covered earthwork.

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

Date of upload: 04 June 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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