Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balreagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balreagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58556, -7.24302
- SMR number
- WM013-043----
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 ridge in grassland, with good views in all directions except to the SE where the site is overlooked by higher ground. Ringfort (WM013-044---)150m to SE. A raised circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stones (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) and a shallow external fosse visible from WSW-W-N. The perimeter has been quarried away from NNE-ESE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.