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
- 53.72786, -7.27618
- SMR number
- WM003-026----
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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 slight but prominent natural rise, ringfort (WM003-025----) 140m to NNW, church site (WM003-006---) 160m to SSW. A roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank, shallow external fosse with traces of a possible external bank visible at E and SW only. Possible entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at SSE. The grass-covered wall footings of a rectangular house site (WM003-026001-) are visible in S quadrant. A series of low earthen banks to the E and W of the ringfort probably represent an ancient field system (WM003-026002-) contemporaneous with the monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.