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Ringfort - rath

Gaybrook Demense, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gaybrook Demense, 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
Gaybrook Demense
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.46680, -7.29047
SMR number
WM026-105----

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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 SE-facing slope on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM026-014----) lies c. 70m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 33.3m E-W; 32.2m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The tree-lined bank is substantial and very steep on the exterior, having a wire fence along its upper edge. There is a gap (original Wth at top 5.8m; basal Wth 2m) at SE which has been narrowed in modern times by a short bank. There is a wide shallow external fosse with no trace of a causeway. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope and has a slight, irregular-shaped depression towards the centre which is of unknown significance. Modern fences intersect the monument at E and W.

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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