Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballygarvey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarvey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated as a quarry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62769, -7.55970
- SMR number
- WM005-016----
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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 natural rise of rock outcrop in low lying poor pasture with good views, bogland 330m to S. A stream skirts the base of the natural rise on which the site is located from SSW-W-N. Ringfort (WM005-015----) 80m to NNW. An oval-shaped raised area (diam. 27m NE-SW; c. 21m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with no trace of a bank or fosse. No entrance feature visible. The interior has been greatly disturbed by quarrying. There is a good deal of stone visible in the scarp and around the site which appears to be natural rock outcrop. Depicted as a quarry and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated as a 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map. Visible as a circular shaped enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. An old field bank running roughly NW-SE runs onto the scarp at E. The S & SW end of the ridge has also been quarried into.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.