Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46903, -7.61518
- SMR number
- WM024-093----
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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 gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped tree-planted area (dims. 30.3m N-S; 24.3m E-W) enclosed by a bank, with intervening fosse and an external bank with a gap (Wth at top 6.3m; basal Wth 2.3m) in the inner bank and a gap (Wth at top 7.6m; basal Wth 5m) in the outer bank at N which may represent the entrance. The inner bank is steep and is almost reduced to a scarp, large portions have been dug away at SE and WNW. There are the remains of a slight fosse and of an external earthen bank. A modern roadside wall which forms the townland boundary with Taghnafearagh skirts the bank from SSE-S-SW, where the fosse and outer bank are not visible. The interior has a gentle NNE-facing slope.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.