Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Balrath (rathconrath By., Skeagh Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath (rathconrath By., Skeagh Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53226, -7.57719
- SMR number
- WM017-068----
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 relatively low-lying ground, in wet pasture, with reasonably good views to N and S, townland boundary with Skeagh Beg lies immediately to S. No monument depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small oval-shaped earthwork truncated at SW by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Described in 1980 as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (25m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a low scarp with slight traces of a fosse visible from NNW-N-E, and a narrow causeway (approx. Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) at N which may indicate an original entrance. The scarp is very poorly defined and is barely traceable from SSW-W-NW, where the monument has been truncated by a modern field fence running NW-SE. A large number of field clearance stones obscure the scarp from E-SE. The fosse is very faint and poorly defined. The interior is uneven and rises irregularly from the perimeter towards a long central mound-like rise. There are a number of small, shallow depressions and loose stones on the surface of the interior, which are due to disturbance.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 19 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.