Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoreen, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoreen
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58163, -7.49640
- SMR number
- WM011-093----
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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 low lying wet grassland. Ringfort (WM011-094----) and mill race 100m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Ringfort was levelled between these two dates. All that remains are vague suggestions of a circular scarp (approx. diam 37m NE-SW; H 1.4m). The perimeter is intersected by a drain running NNE-SSW and bank at NE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.