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Ringfort - rath

Enniscoffey Or Caran, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Enniscoffey Or Caran, 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
Enniscoffey Or Caran
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46863, -7.25578
SMR number
WM026-078----

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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

Levelled ringfort situated on a slight rise, on SSW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a large oval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a large roughly circular-shaped grass-covered area (diam. 48m) defined by two broad concentric brown bands (Wth 3.6-3.9m) of earth which are assumed to represent fosses that were exposed during recent scrub clearance. There is part of a third similar outer ring (Wth 5m) visible from SW-W-NNW. The intervening area between the brown rings (where the banks are assumed to have been) are grass-covered areas (Wth 3-3.6m) similar to the interior. The presence of three potential fosses would suggest that this was a trivallate earthwork. A gap (Wth 11.4m) in the inner bank and a corresponding gap (Wth 6m) in the outer grass-covered rings at SE may represent the entrance. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. Monument is visible as an upstanding oval-shaped enclosure on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDK019) taken 14/07/1970.

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

Date of upload: 04 November 2019

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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