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Ringfort - rath

Banagher, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Banagher, 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
Banagher
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49464, -7.18331
SMR number
WM027-013----

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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 gently undulating pasture, overlooked by higher ground from E-S-W. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small irregular D-shaped enclosure with its straight side against a canal embankment running E-W and annotated ‘Fort’. Possibly bisected during construction of the Royal Canal. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map where the monument appears to have been levelled to facilitate construction of the Midland Great Western Railway running ENE-WSW to the immediate S of the canal. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. The monument which lies on the S side of the Royal Canal has been destroyed by a railway line running E-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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