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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73701, -7.27508
- SMR number
- WM003-015----
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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 top of a small but prominent round-topped natural hillock surrounded by hilly and gently undulating land with excellent views to the S and SW. Ringfort (WM001-046----) 380m to N, two ringforts (WM003-017----; WM003-018----) 300m to SSE, ringfort (WM003-016----) 360m to SW. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort possible. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the ringfort is depicted with a disused quarry cutting across the SW quadrant of the monument. This quarry is not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The cropmark of this filled in quarry is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.