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Ringfort - rath

Balrath (Rathconrath By., Churchtown ED), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Balrath, 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
Balrath (Rathconrath By., Churchtown ED)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49883, -7.50736
SMR number
WM025-008----

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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 S-facing slope, in pasture with good views to SSE. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims 31m E-W; 28.8m N-S) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank, with a possible entrance at NE. The bank is steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp. The fosse is wide, steep-sided and flat-bottomed. The outer bank is slight and fragmentary and has remains of stone facing which is best preserved at SSW. A levelled portion of the outer bank makes contact with a very slight and much degraded scarp at ENE and another scarp at WNW. The interior has a gentle SSE-facing slope.

See attached profile of monument surveyed by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 03 September 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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