Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinderry (Moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinderry (Moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50930, -7.33530
- SMR number
- WM019-075----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise, in relatively low-lying, poorly drained pasture with restricted views. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 41m NE-SW; 43m NW-SE) which is defined by an irregular, outer scarp (approx. overall dims. 80m NE-SW; 70m NW-SE).
Monument described in 1970 as an oval-shaped, almost level raised area enclosed by a high steep earthen bank, a shallow outer fosse and a slight counterscarp bank of earth and stones. This is surrounded by an annular space which is bounded by a slight earthen bank and external fosse. There is a slight radial bank across the annular space at S. The original entrance is not recognisable and there is a disturbance gap through the scarp at N. There is a modern E.S.B. pole standing within the interior. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-planted multivallate earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. High elevated platform may suggest that this was a raised rath or platform ringfort or possibly the remains of an Anglo-Norman motte castle.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.