Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Balrath (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50641, -7.51668
- SMR number
- WM025-002----
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 low rise in pasture with good views in all directions. A pond lies c. 60m to N. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subciruclar-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as no surface remains visible. Cropmark of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.