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Ringfort - rath

Maddadoo, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Maddadoo, 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
Maddadoo
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.48984, -7.63870
SMR number
WM024-038----

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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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 44m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is low and defaced in several places. The shallow fosse and low outer bank are visible from NE-E-S. The enclosing elements have been quarried away at SSW and there is a large quarry depression outside the monument at WNW. The original entrance is not visible. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and has cultivation ridges running E-W.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI and aerial photographs taken by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 12 August 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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