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
- 53.73425, -7.27190
- SMR number
- WM003-018----
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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 steep hillock with ringfort (WM003-017----) 30m to W. Ringfort (WM003-022----) 430m to NE, ringfort (WM006-019----) 180m to S, ringfort (WM003-015----) 340m to NW. A sub-circular shaped area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank, wide shallow round-bottomed external fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.1m) at SE. The interior rises unevenly towards the centre.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.