Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballynakill (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.64514, -7.35862
- SMR number
- WM007-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland with Lough Derravaragh 65m to NNE, levelled ringfort (WM007-039----) 160m to SSW. Depicted as a grove of trees and not as an antiquity on all editions of the Ordnance Survey six inch maps. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the possible monument is depicted as a roughly oval-shaped grove of trees with field boundaries intersecting the site at SSW, W and N. However the 1837 Ordnance Survey Field Name Books (No. 42, 4) recorded that in this townland there were '3 ancient forts' (WM007-039----/040----). The grove of trees marked on the six-inch map was believed to be one of the '3 ancient forts'. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork or of the intersecting field boundaries on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.