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Ringfort - rath

Carrick (Fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrick, 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
Carrick (Fartullagh By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured, Rahaclowine
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined, Rahaclowine
Coordinates
53.46399, -7.36459
SMR number
WM026-079----

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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 top of a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure, annotated 'Rahaclowine'. Monument described in 1971 as a small circular-shaped area (dims. 27.2m N-S; 25.3m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The earth and stone bank is twice as high on the exterior than on the interior and is almost reduced to a scarp in places. It has slight remains of external stone facing at SW and there are several slight cattle gaps. There is a narrow, shallow fosse visible from SSE-S-W-N-NNE, which is almost completely infilled from NNE-E-SSE. There is a very large stone laid against the bank exterior at SE. The entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a slight SSE-facing slope and is tree-planted.

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

Date of upload: 04 November 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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