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Ringfort - rath

Corbetstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Corbetstown, 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
Corbetstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.54639, -7.12687
SMR number
WM020-057----

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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 (112m/367ft OD), in gently undulating pasture and tillage, with excellent views in all directions. Annotated ‘Corbetstown Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Monument described in 1970 as a raised roughly circular-shape area (diam. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank is very high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp. There is a very wide and deep intervening fosse which is visible all around. The remains of a substantial outer earthen bank are present from SE-S-WSW and from WNW-NW and which is cut by a road from WSW-W. The original entrance is not visible. A large, roughly circular-shaped depression is visible within the NW quadrant and there are several other smaller depressions visible within the interior. In 1978, the monument is described as having a small section exposed and showing traces of an old habitation layer with animal bone and charcoal flecks noted. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-line earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

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

Date of upload: 05 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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