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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
53.47520, -7.36591
SMR number
WM026-050----

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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 a high ridge, in gently undulating pasture, on former demesne lands of Tudenham Park (Rochfort House), with good views of Lough Ennellc. 460m to W. Ringfort (WM026-049----) lies c. 175m to SW. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 36m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse an outer bank and an outer fosse. The bank is high and falls steeply to a wide and deep U-shaped fosse which is best preserved from SE-S-W-N and is very shallow from N-E-SE. The outer bank is visible from SE-S-W-N. A later trench running ENE-WSW extends through the outer bank and intervening fosse at NNW. A wide gap (Wth at top 4.7m; basal Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank at ESE may represent the entrance, although there is no trace of a causeway. A very slight mound of earth and stones in the centre may be the remains of a hut site.

See attached profile 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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