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Ringfort - rath

Ballintober, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballintober, 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
Ballintober
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.43395, -7.62646
SMR number
WM031-046----

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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 S-facing slope, in pasture with Ballintober House 140m to SW. Ringfort (WM031-045----) lies c. 106m to NW and ringfort (WM031-047----) lies c. 110m to NE. Depicted as a circular grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 36m) enclosed by a drystone wall with the remains of a shallow external fosse. The interior is much higher than the ground outside the wall and previously appears to have had a double ring of trees. This may have been a ringfort which was converted into a landscaped tree ring in the post 1700 period. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 13 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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