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Ringfort - rath

Boardsland, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Boardsland, 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
Boardsland
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49818, -7.81251
SMR number
WM023-008----

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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, with good views in all directions with ringfort (WM023-017----) 30m to NNE. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 52m) enclosed by a bank (H 1.5-2m) that has been incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N and has been disturbed by quarrying. The original entrance is not clearly visible, although there is a gap at S. The interior rises toward the centre and has traces of cultivation ridges running E-W. A field bank and drain curve around the exterior of the monument from NE-E-SSE.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by ASI.

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

Date of upload: 23 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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