Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Battstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Battstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59571, -7.17640
- SMR number
- WM013-111----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The remains of a roughly-circular enclosure which could be the remains of a possible ringfort are visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph (pers. comm. C. McCormack). No antiquity is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Battstown House located 225m to the SE, could be the remains of a landscape feature associated with Battstown House.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.