Let p 5 be a prime, and let O be the ring of integers of a finite extension K of Q p with uniformizer π. Let ρ n : G Q → GL 2 (O/(π n )) have modular mod-π reductionρ, be ordinary at p, and satisfy some mild technical conditions. We show that ρ n can be lifted to an O-valued characteristic-zero geometric representation which arises from a newform. This is new in the case when K is a ramified extension of Q p . We also show that a prescribed ramified complete discrete valuation ring O is the weight-2 deformation ring forρ for a suitable choice of auxiliary level. This implies that the field of Fourier coefficients of newforms of weight 2, square-free level, and trivial nebentype that give rise to semistableρ of weight 2 can have arbitrarily large ramification index at p.