Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51238, -7.17783
- SMR number
- WM020-118----
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 slight but prominent natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1970s as a much disturbed, roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 29m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NW-N-E-S and is almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The bank has been removed from SW-W-NW where there is a large quarry hole that extends through the interior almost to the centre. A slight external fosse is only visible from N-ENE. The entrance is represented by a gap (Wth at top 3.3m; basal Wth 1.1m) and a causeway (Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 4.4m; H 0.3m) at NE. The interior rises towards the centre where there are a pair of conjoined hut sites (WM020-018001-). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.