Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Coordinates
- 53.59327, -7.50150
- SMR number
- WM011-079----
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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 on a gentle ESE slope, surrounded by gently undulating grass-land with good views to the SE. Site of levelled sweathouse (WM011-078----) 50m to SW. Depicted as a small mound on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘Ratheen or Site of Gallows’. Depicted as a small mound on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. All that remains are the grass covered wall footings (Wth 1.7m; H 0.4m) of a rectangular house (diam. 4.9m NNW-SSE; 5.2m ENE-WSW) which may have stood in the W quadrant of a ringfort. This site appears to have been levelled and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. There are slight kinks in the field boundaries to W & E, which may indicate the presence of a circular enclosure or possible ringfort (approx. diam. 40m E-W).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 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.