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Ringfort - unclassified

Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moyvoughly
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.45156, -7.71879
SMR number
WM023-078001-

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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 very slight rise, in relatively low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Rectangular-shaped enclosure/house site (WM023-078002-) lies c. 12m to W. Monument described in 1971 as a large subcircular-shaped area (diam. 39m) enclosed by a low bank and external fosse with slight causeway (Wth at top 2.3m; overall Wth 3.4m) at E may represent the entrance. The bank is almost reduced to a scarp in places and is slightly defaced by livestock. There is a disturbance depression within the centre. The W half of the interior is occupied by a suboval-shaped house site (WM023-078003-) which appears to be a later feature because its slight fosse cuts through the fosse of the ringfort. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument on 11/02/1975 (SMR file).

See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 29 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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