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Ringfort - rath

Taghboyne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Taghboyne, 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
Taghboyne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47779, -7.53446
SMR number
WM025-077----

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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

Sited on the top of a long, almost flat-topped ridge running NE-SW, in pasture, with a good view to S, restricted by surrounding hillocks in other directions. Monument described as a long oval-shaped area (approx. 42m NNE-SSW; 23m WNW-ESE) enclosed by an inner earthen bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The entrance is represented by a gap (Wth at top 5.3m; basal Wth 1.7m) in the inner bank and by a causeway (Wth at top 2.1m; overall Wth 6m; H 0.7m) at NE. The bank is steep on the exterior and is best preserved from S-W and from N-NE-ENE. It is almost reduced to a scarp from W-NW-N and from ENE-E-S and there is a large disturbance gap at SW. A shallow intervening fosse is visible from SSW-W-N-E and is infilled from E-S-SSW. The ground at the foot of the scarp has been quarried away at SW. The outer bank is visible from WNW-NW-N and at NE. The interior rises slightly gently from the perimeter towards the centre where there are the remains of a house site (WM025-077001-). There are vague traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE across the interior.

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

Date of upload: 11 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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