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Ringfort - rath

Edmondstown (Farbill By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Edmondstown, 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
Edmondstown (Farbill By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53890, -7.16754
SMR number
WM020-051----

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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 rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions, except where overlooked by higher ground to WNW. Ringforts (WM020-050---- /-052----) lie c. 85m to SE and c. 130m to NNE, respectively. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a broad oval-shaped area (dims. 44m WNW-ESE; 33.8m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a bank, fosse and traces of an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved from ENE-E-SSE and elsewhere it is gapped. The exterior of the bank is steep and it is almost reduced to a scarp on the interior. The remains of the fosse are wide and shallow and two ESB poles have been erected within it at E. A modern field fence running E-W extends from the exterior of the monument at S and obscures the outer bank at this point. There is a causeway (overall Wth 6.3m; Wth at top 3m; H 0.8m) across the fosse and a corresponding gap (Wth at top 7.3m; basal Wth 1.4m) in the inner bank at NE. The interior has a gentle WNW-facing slope and has traces of cultivation ridges running N-S. Monument is visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 04 July 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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