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Ringfort - rath

Laragh (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Laragh, 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
Laragh (Moycashel By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.41502, -7.59848
SMR number
WM031-082----

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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 (300ft/91m OD), in pasture, with restricted views in most directions. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 27.5m NW-SE; max. 29m NE-SW) cut across the NW sector by a slightly curvilinear field boundary running approx. NE-SW. Monument described in 1979 as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank, an intervening berm and an outer scarp. The inner earth and stone bank is low and poorly preserved where it is visible from SE-S and is otherwise reduced to a scarp. An intervening berm (Wth 11m at E; Wth 16m at NE; Wth 20m at SW) is visible from NNE-E-S-SW. An outer scarp is visible from NE-E-S-W and is incorporated in a field boundary from N-NE. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and appears to be featureless. Monument is visible today as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 22 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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