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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially outlined
Coordinates
53.37389, -7.56039
SMR number
WM037-006----

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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 fairly flat pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-007----) lies c. 120m to NE. Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped enclosure. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 49m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. The low earthen bank is visible from ENE-S-W where it has been incorporated into a field boundary. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and is uneven with a number of dips and rises. Monument is visible today as a semicircular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography and is cut by a farm road running across the N quadrant.

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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