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Ringfort - rath

Knockdomny, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockdomny, 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
Knockdomny
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.40329, -7.76380
SMR number
WM030-096----

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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 S-facing slope, near the top of a ridge running E-W, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to E, S and W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as an subcircular-shaped area (dims. 39m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp is low and has been defaced in places from SE-S, W and NW. There are traces of a low drystone wall built against the scarp at E and S which seem to be the remains of a relatively modern field fence. The fosse is only preserved from N-NE where it is wide and from E-S where it is narrower. There are no signs of an original entrance. The interior is uneven and featureless. A modern field fence running N-S is outside the perimeter to W and a similar field fence running E-W is outside the perimeter at N. Short, disused field fences contact the scarp at NE, SW and NNW. House sites (WM030-096001-) are visible in the centre and in the SE quadrant. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 09 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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