Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonboy Or Ballinacor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonboy Or Ballinacor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50011, -7.61627
- SMR number
- WM024-013----
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 top of a slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to W, N and E. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a tree-lined circular-shaped bivallate earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. Not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.