Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballinive, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinive
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47580, -7.60288
- SMR number
- WM024-096----
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 gentle SSW-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to SE. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure outlined by two concentric lines. Depicted on the revised 1876 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork enclosed by a bank with a field fence intersecting the bank at SSE. No surface remains visible. The levelled monument is bisected by a modern field fence running WNW-ESE.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.