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Ringfort - rath

Ballynagall (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynagall, 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
Ballynagall (Moycashel By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.44097, -7.67394
SMR number
WM031-002----

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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 low-lying wet pasture with stream immediately to W. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as the arc of a scarp, which based on the curvature, may have formed the western arc of a larger enclosure. Partially levelled ringfort described in 1973 as an irregular semicircular-shaped elevated area (diam. 30m N-S) defined by a scarp from S-W-N. There is no visible surface trace of the scarp continuing to E to enclose a specific oval or circular-shaped area. Nevertheless this piece of ground is referred to locally as ‘the fort’ which may confirm that the E portion of the monument was levelled in antiquity. The interior is relatively level, rising slightly towards the centre with a few stones projecting from the surface in the E portion. Partially levelled monument is visible today as a tree-lined arc of an enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 11 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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