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Ringfort - unclassified

Rathskeagh Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Rathskeagh 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
Rathskeagh Upper
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49617, -7.61705
SMR number
WM024-017----

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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 natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to the NW and ESE. Ringfort (WM024-016----) 95m to SW. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a bivallate earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a partially levelled roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) enclosed by a scarp (H 1.4m) and external fosse. A very faint, low profile scarp is traceable and is best preserved to E. A slight fosse (Wth at top 5.3m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.6m) can be traced most of the way around, although it is partially obscured at E by a modern field fence running NNW-SSE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Much of the interior has been quarried away. Outline of poorly preserved monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

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

Date of upload: 31 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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