Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballyvade, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvade
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61078, -7.45713
- SMR number
- WM011-016----
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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 gentle SW facing slope in grassland with good views from SW-W-NW. Enclosure (WM011-017---) 180m to SSE. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 28m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and wide external fosse with an entrance gap (Wth 1.6m) at SE. The bank is best preserved from N-E-ESE, and is levelled elsewhere. The fosse is visible from S-W. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the site at SE. The interior slopes from NE-SW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.