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Ringfort - rath

Stokestown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Stokestown, 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
Stokestown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.50436, -7.44935
SMR number
WM025-019----

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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 low rise (398ft/121m OD), in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular earthwork enclosed by a bank with OS trig point. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area defined by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with entrance gap (Wth at top 4m; Wth at base 1.6m) in the inner bank and a causeway (Wth at top 2.1m; Wth at base 4.6m; H 0.3m) across the fosse at E. The inner bank has several disturbance gaps and has been dug away at WSW, W and NW. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from WNW-NNW. The interior has an ESE-facing slope. A field system surrounds the monument. Monument described in 1976 as the cropmark of a levelled monument represented by a stony band in a tillage field. No surface remains visible today of this ringfort on the Digital Globe aerial photograph.

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

Date of upload: 05 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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