Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballinealoe, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinealoe
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68504, -7.37962
- SMR number
- WM003-087----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small hillock, surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Bog visible 700m from SW-NW. Ringfort (WM003-088---) 190m to SSE. The field fence which forms the townland boundary with Mayne curves around the E edge of the monument. No surface remains of this levelled monument. Depicted as a rectangular shaped earthwork with limekiln immediately to E on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Faint outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Outline of monument depicted on an estate map dating from 1781 (MS 21 F. 48 / (006)).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 May 2017
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 47 (006) – National Library of Ireland, A map of Ballinealoe and Williamstown in the barony of Fore and County of Westmeath, the estate of Thomas Smyth. By J.B. March 1781. Longfield Map Collection. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.