Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balroe, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balroe
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57662, -7.49978
- SMR number
- WM011-124----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on low-lying wet grassland. Possible moated site (WM011-123---) 55m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure and as a semi-circular shaped earthwork on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. The site had been partially levelled between these two dates. Now reduced to an oval scarp (approx. diam 45m NE-SW; H 1m) the monument has been bisected by a 20th century field fence running NE-SW. No trace of the monument survives on the N side of this fence. The interior is level and has a slight slope from NE-SW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.