Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballinlug, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlug
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52383, -7.54207
- SMR number
- WM017-080----
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 a low rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture. Depicted as a semi-circular shaped enclosure bisected at N by a field boundary running E-W on an estate map dating from 1776 (NLI MS 21 F 48 (26) ). Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (approx. dims. 46m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) with straight side to N defined by a field boundary which probably bisected the enclosure. No enclosing element shown to N of field boundary. No monument depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. An ASI field report of 1983 indicated that there was no surface remains visible of this levelled ringfort. Levelled monument barely visible today as a D-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2018
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (26) - National Library of Ireland, A map of lands at Ballinbeg Rathconrath and Simonstown... in the barony of Rathconrath and County of Westmeath. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.