Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynafid, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynafid
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58998, -7.38672
- SMR number
- WM012-084----
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 in the grounds of Woodland House located 200m to SW and 400m NNE of Lough Owel with good views of the surrounding countryside. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank (max. H 1.25m) and wide external fosse (max. D 1m).
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.