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Ringfort - rath

Adamstown (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Adamstown, 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
Adamstown (Moycashel By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.45560, -7.50867
SMR number
WM025-132----

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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 SSE-facing slope of a very gentle rise, in gently undulating pasture, which overlooks low lying wet ground, to E and with good views to SE. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (diam. 29m N-S) enclosed by a bank with traces of a fosse with a gap at E where a modern pathway intersects the earthwork. There is a much disturbed low earth and stone bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth atop 0.4m; overall Wth 2.4m) from NW-N-E-S-SW which has traces of external stone facing. It incorporates large stones and rock outcrop and has several disturbance gaps. There is a slight fosse-like depression from NW-N-ENE. The perimeter of the monument has been removed from SW-W-NW and replaced by a modern stone wall running NNE-SSW. There is no trace of the monument to W of this wall. A modern wall extends just outside the bank from the SSE-S-SW. The interior has an uneven SSE-facing slope and traces of cultivation ridges running NE-SW. Near the centre is a rock which protrudes the surface slightly and has a boulder resting on top. There is a massive rock and smaller outcrops in the NNW quadrant.

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

Date of upload: 24 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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