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Ringfort - rath

Clonickilvant, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clonickilvant, 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
Clonickilvant
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53837, -7.19592
SMR number
WM020-039----

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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 low rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped enclosure (approx. overall dims. 42m N-S; 47m E-W). Ringfort (WM020-040----) lies c. 90m to E.
Monument described in 1970-72 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earthen bank, fosse and traces of a low outer bank, causewayed entrance at SSW and a number of small disturbance gaps elsewhere. The inner bank is high and steep and almost reduced to a scarp. The wide fosse is best preserved from SSW-W-NNW and from E-SSE. Elsewhere the fosse is shallow or disturbed by digging, particularly at E, where it has been quarried. The low outer bank only survives at NE and from E-SE-SSE. Modern field fences contact the bank at NNW and NE. Three house sites (WM020-039001-/002-/003-) are located within the interior. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork containing three house sites on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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: 07 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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