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Ringfort - rath

Vilanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Vilanstown, 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
Vilanstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not idnicated
Coordinates
53.47936, -7.27724
SMR number
WM026-043----

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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 an elevated area, in pasture, with extensive views to N. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1977 as the barely visible remains of a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 28m E-W) defined by faint indications of a levelled bank from ENE-E-ESE and signs of a fosse from WSW-W-WNW. A modern field fence running E-W lies c. 15m to N and another field fence running N-S lies c. 25m to W. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 02 October 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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