Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balrath East, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath East
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55967, -7.16167
- SMR number
- WM020-018----
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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 ridge, in pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a large, roughly circular-shaped enclosure. A path is also shown leading up to the site at SW and a gravel pit outside the perimeter at NE.
Monument described in 1981 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 36.5m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank, an intervening fosse and suggestions of an outer bank. The inner bank (ext. H 3.5m) is substantial. There are slight traces of a fosse (Wth 3m). There are remnants of an outer bank in places, although this is very degraded. There is a gap in the inner bank at E which indicates an entrance. The surface of the interior is very uneven and obscured by overgrowth. This earthwork is bisected by a field fence which runs NE-SW across the site. Monument is visible as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 06 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.