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Ringfort - rath

Teernacreeve, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Teernacreeve, 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
Teernacreeve
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.39693, -7.47570
SMR number
WM032-106----

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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

Described in 1977 as a ringfort on good pastureland, situated on a small hillock, just below the summit on the E facing slope of rising ground. The site consists of a roughly circular area (diam. 56m N-S; 53m E-W) defined by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank best preserved from W to NW with a shallow outer fosse which is best preserved at NW and not visible from N to E. The inner bank is lower in height in the S and is very faint from NE to E. There is a short stretch of a counterscarp bank at SE, but this is not visible elsewhere. There is a gap on the E which probably represents the original entrance feature and a later smaller gap on the N. The interior slopes from NW to SE and no features are visible.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 28 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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