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Ringfort - rath

Raharney, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Raharney, 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
Raharney
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.52167, -7.10427
SMR number
WM020-131----

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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

National Monument No. 572. Described in 1970 as a ‘circular slightly uneven enclosure, sloping slightly from N-S bounded by a scarp with slight remains of an earthen bank on its upper edge and with remains of a fosse at its foot. The bank is best preserved from NE-E. Elsewhere it rises barely above the interior. The bank is denuded to the level of the interior from SW-S-SE and U-shaped fosse is not visible there. There is a modern bank outside the scarp on the SE. The shallow fosse is well defined from SW-W-N. From N-E-SE it is very slight. There are some modern depressions inside the bank on the N. A slight gap (Wth 5m-1.4m) on the SE may represent the entrance. No visible trace of a causeway. Situated on the S gentle slope of a natural rise of good pasture. The site is largely overgrown with blackthorn and scrub’ (SMR File 14/04/1970).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 January 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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