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Ringfort - unclassified

Gneevebeg, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Gneevebeg, 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
Gneevebeg
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.42010, -7.51202
SMR number
WM032-067----

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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

Monument was levelled during land project works carried out in the 1970s. The site of the possible levelled ringfort (diam. c. 42m NNW-SSE) was inspected in 1977 and described as follows: 'On the NE end of a NE-SW ridge in good pasture land. All that now remains is a low scarp with a line of nettles at its foot visible from WNW-NW. Beyond this is a narrow and broken band of nettles in a slight depression stretching in an arc from WSW-W-N which may represent the line of the fosse. On the E side there is an irregular band of stony soil visible about halfway down the slope of the ridge which may represent the site of a bank. A modern field fence runs NW-SE past the site on the E and curves out around the foot of the ridge on the NE. The interior slopes irregularly from NW to SE' (SMR file). Ringfort (WM032-068----) located 100m to the SSE.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 06 March 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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