Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynafearagh (rathconrath By., Umna Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynafearagh (rathconrath By., Umna Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45721, -7.68523
- SMR number
- WM023-077----
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 very slight rise, in wet pasture with wide views to N, SW and W and overlooked by a rise to NE and E. Monument described in 1971 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 20m) enclosed by a bank, fosse and traces of an outer bank. The earthen bank is very low and there is a very shallow fosse visible from NE-E-S-W-NW. The fosse is infilled from NW-N-NE. The ground is uneven beyond the fosse and there are faint traces of a very low outer bank. The interior is has a gentle NE-facing slope and slight remains of old cultivation ridges running E-W.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.