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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46986, -7.60412
- SMR number
- WM024-109002-
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 rise, in pasture, with wide views of the surrounding landscape. Immediately W of ringfort (WM024-109----) is a large, roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 55m) enclosed by a low bank with a house site (WM024-109003-) located in the centre. A second possible house site (WM024-109004-) adjoins the ringfort bank at WSW. There is another rectangular-shaped structure, possibly a house site (WM024-109005-) immediately outside the ringfort bank at E. Old field fences encroach on the site at S, W and N. Site levelled as modern quarry now located in area where ringfort was located.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.