Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58825, -7.10656
- SMR number
- WM013-065----
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 the NE face of a rocky ridge with restricted views. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank and wide external fosse. A field fence runs along the line of the fosse from SE-SW. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) at NNE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.