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Ringfort - rath

Boggagh (Eighter),Kill (Clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Boggagh (Eighter), Kill, 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
Boggagh (Eighter),Kill (Clonlonan By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.38619, -7.76681
SMR number
WM036-015----

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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 in pasture, with reasonable views of the surrounding countryside. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork bisected by a public road running N-S which forms townland boundary with Kill. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m) enclosed by a bank (approx. dims. Wth 2m; max. H 1m) with a possible entrance at NE. The interior is divided almost equally by the public road which runs N-S through the earthwork. The surface has a slight S-facing slope and the E half is partly overgrown with briars and the W portion is divided into two areas by a field boundary running E-W. Monument is visible today s a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork bisected by the public road running N-S, on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 28 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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