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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
53.42884, -7.72665
SMR number
WM030-054----

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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 natural rise, in pasture, with fairly good views in all directions and overlooking the Tang River c. 70m to NE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a large subcircular-shaped earthwork bisected by a farm trackway. Levelled monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 48m) bisected by a roadway running WNW-ESE across the monument. The perimeter is defined by a low scarp from WNW-N-E-ESE, on the N side of the roadway and is defined by the low remains of a levelled scarp from ESE-S-W-WNW, on the S side of the roadway. The N half of the interior has a N-facing slope and the S half has a S-facing slope and the surface is quite uneven. A disused quarry hole is situated in the W side of the natural rise on which the site is located. It has been partially infilled with field clearance stones. Levelled monument is traceable today as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork 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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