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
- 53.58534, -7.23127
- SMR number
- WM013-046----
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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 in gently undulating grassland, overlooked by higher ground on all sides except at NW and SW. Ringfort (WM013-036---) 160m to NNW. This site has been partially levelled at SSE by a roadway running N-S leading to a house located 40m to SSE. All that remains is a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved low earthen bank only visible from SW-NW and from NE-SE, elsewhere reduced to a scarp. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.