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Ringfort - rath

Tyrrellstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tyrrellstown, 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
Tyrrellstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46191, -7.33898
SMR number
WM026-086----

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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 slight rise, in pasture, overlooked by higher ground to NE and with a narrow view of Lough Ennell to W. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 38.6m E-W; 37.2m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is steep on the exterior and is best preserved from N-E and is almost reduced to a scarp from E-S-W-N. The interior of the bank is defined by four large stones which are slightly spaced apart at NE and may have formed a facing. There are traces of a very slight fosse and a portion of earth and stone field boundary crosses it at S. The original entrance is not visible. The interior has a slight ENE-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW and several naturally formed humps and hollows in the centre. A low scarp (L 8.2m; H 0.5m) with a facing of large stones curves to S and SSW of the centre and is of unknown significance.

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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