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Ringfort - rath

Correagh (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Correagh, 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
Correagh (Moycashel By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.37500, -7.55862
SMR number
WM037-005----

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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 gently rising ground with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-006----) lies c. 120m to SW. No antiquity shown at this location on the first ed. OS 6-inch map but depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 45m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse, no indication of an entrance. The interior is fairly even and a large rock protrudes from the surface in the N quadrant. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted 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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