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
- 53.72948, -7.27740
- SMR number
- WM003-025----
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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 the top of a slight but pronounced natural rise of ground with good views to S and W. A roughly circular area enclosed by a low earth and stone bank, with shallow fosse and external bank visible from N-NE and from SE-S-W only, with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.7m) at SSE. The ringfort is intersected at E by a roadway running N-S which destroys the enclosing elements of the monument on this side. In the N quadrant of the ringfort interior there is a low stony rise which possibly indicates the remains of a house site but this is uncertain. A crescent-shaped annexe defined by a low earthen bank adjoins the ringfort to the NW. A low L-shaped earthen bank in the S quadrant of the annexe defines a roughly square shaped area. This earthwork is too large to represent the remains of a house site. The interior of the annexe is much disturbed by cultivation ridges running ENE-W-SW. The interior of the ringfort is also disturbed by similar cultivation ridges
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.