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Ringfort - rath

Kilbeg, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilbeg, 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
Kilbeg
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.38451, -7.56045
SMR number
WM037-004----

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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

Situated on SW-facing slope of a ridge running E-W, in pasture, with good views to S, W and NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large roughly circular-shaped earthwork with a rectangular-shaped building abutting to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 41m ENE-WSW; 36m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp with slight traces of an external fosse only visible from NW-N-NE. No clear entrance feature visible. The monument is fully enclosed by a field fence from NE-E-S-W. At W, NW, N and NNE. There are livestock gaps at W, NW, N and NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope with evidence of rock outcrop close to the surface. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 16 December 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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