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
- 53.73150, -7.27163
- SMR number
- WM003-021----
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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 natural rise on well drained pasture-land. Ringforts (WM003-020----; WM003-019----) 60m to NNW, ringfort (WM003-023----) 290m to E. Roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 32m) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank, wide deep round-bottomed external fosse, no entrance clearly visible. Enclosing bank forms field boundary from S-W-NW as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Several modern gaps in bank. The interior is sub-divided by a straight bank of stony earth.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 December 2016
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.