Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydoogan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydoogan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43270, -7.73944
- SMR number
- WM030-053----
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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 the end of a high ridge (100m/328ft OD), in pasture, with commanding views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated ‘forts’ and ‘Raheenjones’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure with a smaller conjoined circular-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS map as a large subrectangular-shaped earthwork with a smaller subrectangular-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE. Monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is visible today as a two vague conjoined subcircular-shaped cropmarks on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Exhibitionist figure (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.