Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinphort, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphort
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63623, -7.36152
- SMR number
- WM007-069----
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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 rise in fairly well drained pasture-land, with wide views of the surrounding countryside. Ringfort (WM007-042----) 90m to NW. A slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank from N-W-SW, a shallow fosse at E and a poorly preserved outer bank at NE. The interior slopes gently from W-E, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run E-W. A post-1837 field boundary running WSW-ESE intersects the SW side of the monument, and a field boundary, part of an old lane way intersects the SE side of the site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.