Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymanus, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymanus
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73513, -7.28905
- SMR number
- WM003-010----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low round-topped natural rise surrounded by gently undulating and hilly land of poor to average pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map with farm buildings immediately to S and W. On this map a field boundary running N-S is shown intersecting the perimeter of the monument at E. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map only curving field boundary to the N of two farm buildings represents the S enclosing element of this ringfort. A sub-circular shaped area (diam. 22m) defined by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or entrance feature. The interior is uneven rising very slightly from the perimeter towards the centre.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.