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Ringfort - rath

Ardmore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardmore, 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
Ardmore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.51591, -7.31442
SMR number
WM019-079----

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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 slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with restricted views. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped partially tree-lined earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (39m ENE-WSW; 33m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a steep earthen bank, a wide shallow fosse and a very fragmentary outer bank. The inner bank has been pushed out into the fosse from E-SE-SSE. It has several small modern gaps but the original entrance is not visible. There is a modern causeway outside one of the gaps at WNW. The outer bank is not concentric with the fosse in a few places and may be a later feature. The interior has a slight SE-facing slope and there are traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE. A house site (WM019-079001-) and earthworks are located 25m to ENE. Monument visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on 05/02/1975 (Iris Oifiguíl 11/02/1975).

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

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

Date of upload: 05 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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