Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balrowan (packenham), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrowan (packenham)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50960, -7.17199
- SMR number
- WM020-119----
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 side of a natural scarp, overlooked by higher ground to SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 22m NW-SE; 19.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with a scarp in places and an outer fosse. The earth and stone bank is present from SE-S-W-N-NE and is reduced to a scarp from NE-E-SE, whereby it drops into the interior from the external ground level. The slight shallow fosse is only visible from S-W-WNW. A gap (Wth at top 4.2m; basal Wth 1.7m) in the bank at SSE presumably represents the entrance and there is a large disturbance gap at NW. The interior has a gentle NNE-facing slope and traces of cultivation ridges running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 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.