Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balrath (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath (rathconrath By., Churchtown Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49883, -7.50736
- SMR number
- WM025-008----
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 slight S-facing slope, in pasture with good views to SSE. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims 31m E-W; 28.8m N-S) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank, with a possible entrance at NE. The bank is steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp. The fosse is wide, steep-sided and flat-bottomed. The outer bank is slight and fragmentary and has remains of stone facing which is best preserved at SSW. A levelled portion of the outer bank makes contact with a very slight and much degraded scarp at ENE and another scarp at WNW. The interior has a gentle SSE-facing slope.
See attached profile of monument surveyed by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.