Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynalone, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynalone
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49924, -7.71579
- SMR number
- WM023-022----
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 rise, in low-lying, wet pasture which is overlooked by higher ground from W-SW. Bivallate ringfort described as a roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 35m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The monument is best preserved from SW-W. The interior has old cultivation ridges running NE-SW. A deep drain and field boundary running NE-SW truncates the NE quadrant of the interior. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument on 04/11/1983 (SMR file). No surface remains visible today of monument on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.