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Ringfort - rath

Benalbit And Derryroe, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Benalbit And Derryroe, 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
Benalbit And Derryroe
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.40749, -7.48181
SMR number
WM032-081----

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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 at the SE end of a small ridge running NW-SE, in pasture, with good views to SE. Monument described as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 44m NNW-SSE; 39m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank from NW-N-E and by a scarp from E-S-WSW. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary from NW-N-NE. The perimeter has been levelled from WSW-W-NW. There is no indication of a fosse. A gap (Wth at top 3.6m; basal Wth 2.4m) at SE may represent the original entrance. The interior rises unevenly from the perimeter towards the centre. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography, which is open to W.

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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