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Ringfort - rath

Bryanmore Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Bryanmore Upper, 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
Bryanmore Upper
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46437, -7.77102
SMR number
WM023-057----

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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 WNW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture with excellent views to WSW, W, and N. Lady Well (WM023-089----) 60m to SSE. Monument described in 1971 a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank that is much disturbed and almost reduced to a scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable and there is no definite trace of an external fosse. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope and several humps and hollows which are due to disturbance. There is a post-1700 quarry hole adjacent to NE. Modern house and garden plot built into N quadrant of enclosure which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

See attached profile of monument which was surveyed and drawn by the ASI

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

Date of upload: 25 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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