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Ringfort - rath

Lisdachon, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisdachon, 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
Lisdachon
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49665, -7.80076
SMR number
WM023-010----

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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 top of a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a subrectangular-shaped area (dims. 41.4m WSW-ENE; 34.3m SSE-NNW) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with causewayed entrance at ENE. The low inner bank is reduced to a scarp at NW. The intervening fosse is visible from SW-WNW, NE and E-ESE. The outer bank is visible from SW-WNW and at NE. The entrance is represented on the ENE by a gap (Wth at top 4m; basal Wth 2.1m) in the inner bank and a causeway (overall Wth 5.1m; Wth at top 3.1m; H 0.3m) across the fosse. Part of the exterior of the monument has been quarried away at WNW. The interior has an ENE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW. There is also a slight trace of an earth and stone bank running NNW-SSE across the interior and a rise where an OS trig. station marking OD 318 ft. once stood. The monument is truncated across the NW quadrant by a field boundary running NE-SW.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the 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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