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Ringfort - rath

Cappantack, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cappantack, 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
Cappantack
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.40068, -7.69863
SMR number
WM030-110----

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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 in level pasture c. 50m S of the Athlone-Mullingar railway line. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a curvilinear townland boundary demarcating a roughly oval-shaped area which is open to SE. Monument described in 1983 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) defined primarily by a curving field fence which is open to SE. The field fence curves through an arc from SW-W-N-E-ESE and consists of an earth and stone bank (approx. H c. 1m). There are slight traces of a shallow external fosse outside the bank. The perimeter can be traced as a low bank with a very shallow fosse on the exterior from ESE-S-SW. There are no indications of any surviving internal features. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography and curving section of townland boundary has been removed to N and E.

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

Date of upload: 10 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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