Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymanus, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymanus
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73452, -7.27922
- SMR number
- WM003-016----
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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 at the base of the E facing slope of a steep prominent irregular shaped ridge, surrounded by hilly land with good views to SSE. Ringfort (WM003-015----) 360m to NNE, two ringforts (WM003-017----; WM003-018----) 370m to E. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort. Described in 1956 as a ringfort consisting of a circular shaped area (diam. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.6m) with several gaps but no clear entrance feature and no external fosse visible (OPW Field Report 08/11/1956). No trace or cropmark of this levelled monument 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.