Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynafid, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynafid
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60551, -7.39858
- SMR number
- WM011-069----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a ridge in rushy grassland. Railway line 100m to W. Ringfort (WM011-070----) 360m to SE. A sub-circular shaped area (38m E-W; 40m N-S) enclosed by a two banks of earth and stone and an intervening shallow fosse. The inner bank is low, and the outer bank is very poorly preserved, with only slight traces visible. The uneven interior rises towards the centre.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.