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Ringfort - unclassified

Ballysallagh (Fox), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Ballysallagh (Fox), County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballysallagh (Fox)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured, Shankill
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.58001, -7.51954
SMR number
WM011-081----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the top of a prominent small hillock, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with extensive views from N-E-S. The site is located in a field annotated as 'Shankill' on the 1837 ed. OS -inch map. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure annotated as ‘Track of fort’, and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure.
This site has been levelled and is only visible as a cropmark. An oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 20.5m N-S; 16.4m E-W) enclosed by a band of green grass is all that is visible. The interior has several slight humps and hollows and vague suggestions of NE-SW cultivation ridges. According to local information there was a stone covering a ‘cavity’ in the N quadrant of the ringfort and that there was a local belief that this land was owned by monks at one time (pers. comm. 18/10/1972). The 'cavity' possibly represents the existence of a possible souterrain (WM011-081001-) inside the levelled ringfort. Modern farm buildings have been built on the NNE quadrant of the levelled ringfort as shown on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 August 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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