Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballymaghery, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaghery
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58106, -7.12580
- SMR number
- WM013-068----
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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
Depicted on the 1838 Ordnance Survey fair plan map as a roughly circular shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low rise of ground in grassland. No surface remains visible.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaque (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.