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
- 53.44719, -7.72935
- SMR number
- WM030-016----
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 at the top of a S-facing slope, in wet undulating pasture, overlooking the Tang River c. 70m to SE and with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM030-017----) lies c. 65m to NE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a narrow, shallow fosse-like depression from S-W-N-E-SE and by a low faint scarp from SE-S. The interior is slightly uneven and appears to have been disturbed. Monument is visible today as a very faint roughly circular-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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.