Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boyanagh (earl), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boyanagh (earl)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39332, -7.80269
- SMR number
- WM030-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted enclosure on top of a hillock marked by at a spot height of 273ft/83mOD. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork defined by a scarp from W-N-NE and by a field boundary from NE-E-S-W. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.