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
- 53.58049, -7.49792
- SMR number
- WM011-094----
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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight natural rise on relatively low lying wet grassland with corn mill 520m to NNW. Ringfort (WM011-093---) 105m to NE. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure intersected at W by a mill race on the 1837 ed.OS 6-inch map. Not depicted on revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. This bank is only visible at SW. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre where it levels off to form a depression. A mill race running NNE-SSW intersects the monument from W-SW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.