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Ringfort - rath

Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rochfort Demesne, 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
Rochfort Demesne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47393, -7.36833
SMR number
WM026-049----

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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 WSW-facing slope of a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, on former demesne lands of Tudenham Park (Rochfort House), c. 385m to E of Lough Ennell. Ringfort (WM026-050----) lies c. 175m to NE. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 31.5m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank is low and very fragmentary and is reduced to a scarp from ESE-SE-S. A slight fosse is visible from S-W-N-E. The bank has slight remains of an external stone facing which defines either side of an entrance gap (Wth at top 5.5m; basal Wth 1.8m) at SW. The fosse is very slight at this point, possibly suggesting the presence of a causeway. The interior rises gradually from the perimeter towards the centre, except from SE where it rises steeply. The remains of a possible limekiln consisting of a roughly circular-shaped depression (diam. 4.8m) faced with dry-stone masonry is within the centre.

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

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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