Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tallyho, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tallyho
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47167, -7.35011
- SMR number
- WM026-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low rise in undulating pasture. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as an almost subtriangular-shaped earthwork delimited by a scarp. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large oval-shaped earthwork. Monument shown as a grove of trees on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. The site where it is marked in pencil on the OPW field map is a large, shallow roughly circular depression. Outline of levelled monument is visible today as a cropmark bisected by a field boundary running NNE-SSW on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.