Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycomoyle, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycomoyle
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71994, -7.29361
- SMR number
- WM003-043----
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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 of ground with good views to NE, E and SW. Large oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 79m NW-SE; 53m NE-SW) enclosed by a well preserved substantial earth and stone bank (Wth 3-5m; int. H 1.5-2m), with wide deep fosse and the remains of an external bank only visible from N-E-S. Causewayed entrance (Wth 3.8m) at W. The external bank appears to be the remains of a post-1700 field boundary as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior of the ringfort has old cultivation ridges running NE-SW through it.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.