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Ringfort - rath

Grange More, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grange More, 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
Grange More
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53692, -7.08284
SMR number
WM021-002----

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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)
  • 1799 · 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 undulating pasture, good views in all directions, albeit overlooked by a small ridge at N. Grange More House (now in ruins) lies c. 260m to SE. Monument described in 1980 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is reduced to a moderate scarp from ENE-E-S-W-NW and as a very low scarp from NW-N, being almost levelled from N-E-ENE. There is a modern gap at NNE but there is no sign of an original entrance. A wide and shallow intervening fosse is visible from S-W-NW. The outer bank of earth and stone is present from SSW-W-NNW, where it is quite low. There is a gap at W but this appears to be relatively modern. The interior has an irregular SSW-facing slope and is featureless. NW-W-S. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork 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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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