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Ringfort - rath

Higginstown (Farbill By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Higginstown, 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
Higginstown (Farbill By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.52323, -7.13945
SMR number
WM020-091----

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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 in low-lying pasture, overlooked by higher ground and with restricted views of the surrounding landscape. Townland boundary with Killucan immediately to S. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 47m WNW-ESE; 36m NNE-SSW). Monument described in 1970-2 as a subcircular-shaped area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank has several small gaps and a large portion of the perimeter has been quarried away at NE. There are very slight remains of a fosse from NW-N-NNE. The original entrance is not clear but may have been at SE where there is a gap (Wth at top 4.7m; basal Wth 1.8m). The interior has a gentle NE-facing slope and there are quarry holes evident with residual spoil heaps. A field boundary flanks the monument from SSE-S-SSW. Monument is visible as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 08 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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