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Ringfort - rath

Shurock (Clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Shurock, 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
Shurock (Clonlonan By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.41567, -7.73948
SMR number
WM030-077----

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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 small rise, in undulating pasture, with good views to N, E and SE, overlooked by ridges to W and NW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 28m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an inner bank and an outer scarp. The inner bank is present from SE-S-W-NW and is reduced to a scarp from NW-N-E-SE. It may have been straightened from NE-E-SE when the perimeter of the monument was cut by a public road running NNW-SSE. A short portion of a low stone outer bank is present from SE-S and this continues as an outer scarp from S-W-N. This outer scarp has traces of a rough dry-stone facing in places which may be a later feature. There are quarry depressions outside the perimeter at S and SE. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior is uneven and appears to have been disturbed in the relatively recent past. Monument is visible as a partially tree-lined 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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