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Ringfort - rath

Cappanrush, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cappanrush, 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
Cappanrush
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.35742, -7.40925
SMR number
WM038-033----

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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 low rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork (dims. 43m N-S; 45m E-W) cut across the W sector by a field boundary running roughly N-S with a small square-shaped enclosure or structure adjoining the E side, in the NW quadrant of the ringfort. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. A house site (WM038-033001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. The monument is densely overgrown making close examination difficult. According to a field report of 1977, the W sector of the monument has been levelled to W of the field boundary running N-S. According to local information the ringfort was levelled in the early 1980s (pers. comm. Hugh Carey 17/07/1997). Levelled monument is visible today as a vague outline of a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography which abuts a modern house plot to W.

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

Date of upload: 18 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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