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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63481, -7.36251
- SMR number
- WM007-070----
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 in pasture-land, with very wide views to the N and restricted views in other directions. Ringfort (WM007-042----) 210m to NNW. Ringfort (WM007-042---) 140m to NNE. Ringfort (WM007-068---) 160m to SW. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, almost completely levelled from S-W, a shallow fosse at E & SW, and a poorly preserved outer counterscarp bank at ENE. There is an entrance gap at E. The interior slopes from SW-NE. A field fence running NE-SW, depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map intersects the monument at S.
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.