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Ringfort - rath

Ballydoogan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballydoogan, 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
Ballydoogan
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.43270, -7.73944
SMR number
WM030-053----

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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 end of a high ridge (100m/328ft OD), in pasture, with commanding views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated ‘forts’ and ‘Raheenjones’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure with a smaller conjoined circular-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS map as a large subrectangular-shaped earthwork with a smaller subrectangular-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE. Monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is visible today as a two vague conjoined subcircular-shaped cropmarks on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 08 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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