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Ringfort - rath

Wooddown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Wooddown, 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
Wooddown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.52542, -7.24839
SMR number
WM019-070----

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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 the S side of a gentle rise, in good pasture with good views to E, SE and SW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly oval-shaped area (32.5m NNW-SSE; 31.00m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.1m; Wth at top 0.6m; max. Wth 6.5m) is best preserved from S-W-N-NNE and is very fragmentary where it is reduced to a scarp from NNE-E-S. The scarp has been quarried at ESE. The original entrance is not recognisable, although there is a modern gap at NW. The fosse is (Wth at top 3.6m; D 0.15m) best preserved from NW-N-NE and is barely perceptible from ENE-E-SE. Monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as an oval-shaped, tree-lined earthwork.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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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