Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycloghduff (kilkenny West By., Grogan Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycloghduff (kilkenny West By., Grogan Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44467, -7.73792
- SMR number
- WM030-014----
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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 pasture, with extensive views to NE and E. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a fairly small roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 34m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a scarp from ENE-E-S-W-N with traces of a low bank from N-ENE. The scarp is best preserved at E and S and is very faint at W and has a disused quarry depression at NW. There is a lot of stone on the scarp but this seems to be a mixture of field clearance stones with some outcrop. There is no indication of an entrance. A modern field fence running NE-SW abuts the perimeter to NW, where the scarp is defaced. The interior is slightly uneven and there are some small areas of outcrop in the NW quadrant and some small field clearance stones scattered elsewhere. There are faint traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW to the immediate S of the monument. Monument is visible today as a very faint oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.