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Ringfort - rath

Rathnamuddagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathnamuddagh, 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
Rathnamuddagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47716, -7.47833
SMR number
WM025-097----

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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 the S-facing slope of a rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to NW and SE. Monument described in 1971, 1977 and 1989 as a small, roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 25m N-S) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is almost reduced to a scarp from NE-E-S-SSW. It has traces of internal and external stone facing at NE. It has been quarried WSW-W and at N and the bank exterior has been disturbed by livestock at E. The fosse and low, fragmentary outer bank are visible from NW-N-E. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a S-facing slope and there is a house site (WM025-097001-) in the SW quadrant. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 28/02/1989.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 23 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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