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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
53.53836, -7.19377
SMR number
WM020-040----

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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 prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Ringfort (WM020-039----) lies c. 90m to W. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 35m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with traces of a wide, shallow outer fosse, causewayed entrance at SSE where there is a gap (Wth at top 69.9m; basal Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank and a corresponding ramp (Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 6.2m; H 1.1m) across the fosse. The bank is high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp on the interior. A modern disturbance gap is visible at W. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible today as a well preserved roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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