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
- 53.73228, -7.27301
- SMR number
- WM003-019----
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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 SE facing slope of steep hillock. Ringfort (WM003-017----; WM003-018----) 180m to N, ringfort (WM003-020----) immediately to SE and ringfort (WM003-021----) 80m to SSE. Roughly raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 38m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with wide deep external fosse and causewayed entrance gap at SE which has been widened by modern quarrying. The bank is badly damaged by burrowing and scrub roots.
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.