Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinriddera, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinriddera
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62842, -7.35677
- SMR number
- WM007-080----
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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 which runs SE-NW. Annotated as ’fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (approx. diam. 15m E-W) adjoining the SW side of a ringfort (WM007-079----). This site has been levelled. Faint traces of levelled enclosure 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.