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Ringfort - rath

Hightown Or Balloughter, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Hightown Or Balloughter, 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
Hightown Or Balloughter
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.47680, -7.20591
SMR number
WM027-051----

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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 very slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area (dims. 27.3m NNW-SSE; 20m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a very low earthen bank visible from ESE-S-W, by a modern field fence from W-N-NNE and by a scarp from NNE-E-ESE. A modern field fence running NNW-SSE is directly abutting the monument to ENE. There is no visible trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. There are two further similar cropmarks visible c. 30m to SW and c. 130m to W, 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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