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Ringfort - rath

Carn (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carn, 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
Carn (Rathconrath By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46749, -7.55220
SMR number
WM024-125----

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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 small steep rocky knoll, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 37.5m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse, a wide gap at E presumably represents the entrance. The bank (ext. H 0.7m) is high and steep on the exterior although it is low on the interior, having the remains of an internal stone facing at NW and ESE. There is a modern gap in the bank at NE. There are very slight remains of an outer fosse which is partly obscured around the outer edge by a modern stone wall. The interior rises gently from the perimeter to the centre where there is a house site (WM024-127001-). Immediately inside the ringfort bank at NNW are slight remains of an earth and stone radial bank (approx. L 4-5m) and there are similar remains at SE.

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

Date of upload: 27 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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