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Ringfort - rath

Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown, 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
Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46903, -7.61518
SMR number
WM024-093----

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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 rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped tree-planted area (dims. 30.3m N-S; 24.3m E-W) enclosed by a bank, with intervening fosse and an external bank with a gap (Wth at top 6.3m; basal Wth 2.3m) in the inner bank and a gap (Wth at top 7.6m; basal Wth 5m) in the outer bank at N which may represent the entrance. The inner bank is steep and is almost reduced to a scarp, large portions have been dug away at SE and WNW. There are the remains of a slight fosse and of an external earthen bank. A modern roadside wall which forms the townland boundary with Taghnafearagh skirts the bank from SSE-S-SW, where the fosse and outer bank are not visible. The interior has a gentle NNE-facing slope.

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

Date of upload: 21 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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