Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barbavilla Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barbavilla Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62850, -7.21192
- SMR number
- WM008-082----
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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 the demesne lands of Barbavilla House located 610m to NNW, on a slight natural rise in gently undulating countryside. Ringfort (WM008-077----) 130m to N. Ringfort (WM008-083----) 200m to ENE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen and stone bank and slight external fosse. The bank has several disturbance gaps, and appears to have been steepened internally. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NW-SE across the interior of the monument.
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.