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Ringfort - rath

Lisnagree, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisnagree, 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
Lisnagree
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.43165, -7.61191
SMR number
WM031-049----

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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 undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 25m). Ringfort described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a low scarp of earth and stone. There is very slight trace of a wall or a bank on top of the scarp in places. A number of large boulders and stones lie on top of the scarp from ENE-E-ESE. The interior is densely overgrown with impenetrable vegetation and access is not possible. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-covered earthwork 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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