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Ringfort - cashel

Jamestown (Rathconrath By., Jamestown ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Jamestown, 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
Jamestown (Rathconrath By., Jamestown ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46132, -7.54534
SMR number
WM024-165----

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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 and scrub, overlooked by a low rise to E and NE. Monument described as an oval-shaped area enclosed by the collapsed remains of a stone rampart and a wide outer fosse, with no clear entrance feature visible.` The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope and is divided by a low, broad earth and stone bank running roughly E-W across the northern sector. There are remains of later field boundaries in the form of earth and stone banks along the outer edges of the fosse. Later field fences intersect the site at NW, NNE, E and W. The interior is largely obscured by dense vegetation. A large house site (WM024-165001-) is visible in the N quadrant of the interior and a small house site (WM024-165002-) is visible in the SE quadrant. The remains of a more recent stone structure are built against the base of the scarp at ESE.

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

Date of upload: 28 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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