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Ringfort - unclassified

Higginstown (Fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Higginstown, 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
Higginstown (Fartullagh By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.43881, -7.38148
SMR number
WM033-004----

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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

Only a short curving section of a cropmark or vegetation stain marks the location of a ringfort that was levelled during land improvement works carried out c.1956. Monument was located on a slight rise of ground with possible ringfort (WM033-003----) located 160m to the NW. Depicted as a large subrectangular shaped-enclosure or possible ringfort (dims. c. 50m NNW-SSE; c. 33m E-W) defined by an enclosing bank on the revised edition of the OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 29 March 2013

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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