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Ringfort - rath

Cloghanaskaw, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloghanaskaw, 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
Cloghanaskaw
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.42494, -7.55880
SMR number
WM031-068----

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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 a rise in gently undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringforts (WM031-069----/-067----) lie c. 60m to E and c. 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by well-preserved bank of earth and stone. A large number of boulders cleared from the surrounding field have been deposited against the outer face of the bank. There does not appear to be a fosse. There is an entrance at SE where the bank juts out into the interior on the SW side of it. The interior is uneven with a scatter of loose stones and there is a house site (WM031-068001-) in the centre. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined 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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