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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62871, -7.35656
- SMR number
- WM007-079----
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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 in pasture-land on the NW face of a ridge running SE-NW. A smaller enclosure (WM007-080----) now levelled adjoins the site at SSW. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank, best preserved at E & S, and wide fosse, deepest at E & S. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) and causeway (Wth 4.4m) across the fosse at E. The interior slopes appreciable from SW to NE. A hut site (WM007-079001-) visible in the NW quadrant of the interior. A field fence intersects the monument at W.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.