Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Clonboy Or Ballinacor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonboy Or Ballinacor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50124, -7.60815
- SMR number
- WM024-019----
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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 plateau of a steep hill in a woodland plantation with Clonboy House 165m to SSE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 25m) standing inside a woodland plantation. Levelled monument described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. Cropmark of levelled circular-shaped earthwork is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Possible ringfort.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.