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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
53.42833, -7.59771
SMR number
WM031-055----

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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 SE side of a small ridge, in NE corner of an undulating field, with good views to E and S. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed in part by an inner bank reduced to a scarp in places with entrance gap at E. A substantial earth and stone bank is visible from W-N-E and a low scarp is present from E-S-WSW. There is a possible external fosse visible from W-NW. A natural outer scarp is located a short distance outside the perimeter from ENE-E-S-SW. The bank is best preserved from W-NW and is faint at NE. The bank is incorporated into a modern field fence running E-W from NW-N-NNE and a second field fence runs N-S close to the perimeter at E. The scarp is highest at SE and is faint at SW. The N side of the entrance gap appears to have stone facing. The interior has a SE-facing slope. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-lined circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 21 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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