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Ringfort - rath

Ballinlaban, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballinlaban, 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
Ballinlaban
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.39760, -7.54217
SMR number
WM031-101----

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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 fairly level ground, in pasture, with fairly good views to S and SW. Bivallate enclosure described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. approx. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The fosse is deep, wide and is best preserved from WNW-NW-N-NNE and is shallower elsewhere, particularly from SSE-S- and from SW-W. There are slight traces of an outer bank. The perimeter has been straightened from NE-E-SE where a field fence running NE-SW runs into the monument at the NE and continues around the perimeter before continuing to the SW. There is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a slight S-facing slope and is fairly even. There is a large quarry depression just outside the monument at ESE. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped 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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