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Ringfort - rath

Rathwire Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathwire Lower, 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
Rathwire Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.50996, -7.12097
SMR number
WM020-133----

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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 low rise, in flat, relatively low-lying pasture and tillage. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1970 as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 47m) visible in tillage as a broad ring of dark brown gravelly soil in contrast to the surrounding field and assumed to be the backfilled fosse. This is further defined on the inner edge by a low, very smooth scarp from SSW-W-N-NNE. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped cropmark now in pasture, on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 09 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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