Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinriddera, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinriddera
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62934, -7.35792
- SMR number
- WM007-078----
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
Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure 45m S of townland boundary with Ballinphort. Ringfort (WM007-071----) 110m to N. Ringfort (WM007-079----) 75m to SE. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Cropmark of levelled ringfort clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.