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Ringfort - rath

Clare, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clare, 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
Clare
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47187, -7.64503
SMR number
WM024-079----

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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 the S-facing slope of a slight rise, in undulating pasture, with excellent views to E, SW and W. Clare castle (WM024-078----) and bawn (WM024-078001-) 175m to N. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 53m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by a high, steep earth and stone bank that is almost reduced to a scarp from NW-N-E-ESE. The bank has several small gaps in it, although the original entrance is not recognisable. There is no external fosse, although there is a fosse-like depression on the interior of the bank. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter toward the centre where there is rock outcrop. A post-1700 stone wall running NW-SE cuts across the NE sector of the monument. There is a complex of old banks surrounding the site, several of which intersects the base of the ringfort bank. One of the banks overlies the perimeter of the monument at NNW.

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

Date of upload: 13 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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