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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
53.53132, -7.20261
SMR number
WM020-071----

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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 and tillage with good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970-2 as a small, subcircular-shaped area (dims. 25.40m NE-SW; 22.50m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with the remains of an external fosse. The earth and stone bank (Wth at top 0.5m; overall Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) is almost reduced to a scarp and has been removed from W-N and at ENE. There are slight modern depressions at the base of the bank at S. There are very slight traces of a fosse at SSW. The original entrance is not obvious but may have been at N. The interior has a gentle SSE-facing slope and there is a large stone on the surface, just inside the bank at SE. A small piece of rock protrudes from the interior of the bank at SE. A slight scarp is visible running ESE-WNW across the interior from the outcrop and may be the remains of an internal partition. Monument is vaguely visible today as an oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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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