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Ringfort - rath

Ballymacmorris, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballymacmorris, 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
Ballymacmorris
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.39047, -7.51302
SMR number
WM038-002----

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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 a hillock (357ft/109m OD) at the end of a ridge, in pasture, with wide views of the surrounding landscape to E, S and W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 56m E-W; 48m N-S). Monument described in 1973 as a fairly large suboval-shaped area enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is low and an irregular fosse is visible from SE-S-SW. The N portion of the monument is badly overgrown making inspection difficult. Monument described in 1982 as having been levelled out in the course of land works. The bank survives as a light band of clay. A shallow fosse could still be seen at the base of the slope from SE-W-WNW. This has been filled in with hardcore and used as a field-drain. There appears to have been an entrance at N. The interior has been deep-ploughed, although there are no immediate signs of any habitation material. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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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