Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nahod Little, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nahod Little
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41509, -7.79364
- SMR number
- WM030-062----
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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 rise, in pasture. A ringfort (WM030-063----) lies c. 90m to S. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly trapezoidal-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1964 as a relatively small D-shaped area enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. Levelled monument described in 1973 as a faint traces of a levelled scarp which is best preserved along the W side. Levelled monument is visible today as a faint roughly D-shaped cropmark 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.