Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63951, -7.36427
- SMR number
- WM007-040----
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 a low ridge which runs NW-SE, in hilly gently undulating pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-041----) 275m to SE. Slightly raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank with slight traces of a fosse, absent at S where a field boundary and post-1700 laneway intersects the monument from SE-SW. Possible entrance gap at ENE (Wth 3m). The slightly raised interior slopes from SW to NE and has traces of cultivation ridges. A low sub-rectangular shaped raised are of mound in the centre may represent a hut or house site (WM007-040001-).
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.