Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Balrath East, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath East
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56458, -7.16749
- SMR number
- WM020-016----
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 the top of a small, steep rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture. Enclosure (WM020-017----) lies c. 145m to SE. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a D-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. Cropmark of levelled monument is barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 06 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.