Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballynaclonagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclonagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63234, -7.40906
- SMR number
- WM006-057----
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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 the NE face of a ridge running E-W, with views of Lough Derravaragh to the NE. Depicted as a circular enclosure with a quarry immediately to NE on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site has been levelled. No surface remains visible. The levelled monument is visible as a circular crop mark (approx. diam. 40m N-S) on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.