Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baskin High, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baskin High
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48036, -7.72712
- SMR number
- WM023-045----
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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 in pasture. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a mound situated adjacent to a disused sandpit. According to local information this monument is known as a ringfort. OS map designation would suggest that this may be the remains of a possible burial mound. It was suggested that the mound was created as a result of upcast spoil from the adjacent sand pit and that the interior of the ringfort was raised as a result to form a mound.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.