Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinealoe, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinealoe
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68319, -7.37813
- SMR number
- WM003-088----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM003-087---) 190m to NNW. The field fences which form the boundaries with the townlands of Simonstown and Lispopple are 38m to the NE and 40m to the E respectively. Depicted as a sub-circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m E-W) on the 1837 ed. OS 6 inch map. The site has been almost completely levelled, all that remains are vague traces of a very low, wide fragmentary earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; H 0.05m).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.