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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49273, -7.18334
SMR number
WM027-033----

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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 the E side of a gentle rise, in undulating pasture, with fairly restricted views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a small subcircular-shaped area (dims. 35m E-W; 31.5m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is high and steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp which has been steepened in modern times. It has been modified from S-W-NW where a laneway extends around the base. There are slight remains of a wide fosse which is best preserved from ESE-SE-S and is almost completely infilled from NW-N-E. A gap (Wth at top 4.8m; basal Wth 3.2m) at E represents a probable entrance, although there is no definite trace of a causeway. A large portion of the perimeter has been quarried at NW. The interior has a slight ENE-facing slope. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 06 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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