Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44347, -7.61009
- SMR number
- WM031-019----
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 S-facing slope of a high ridge, in pasture. Ringfort (WM031-025----) lies c. 155m to SE. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32m) defined by an earth and stone scarp. The interior has a general S-facing slope and rises unevenly from the perimeter toward the centre where there are the remains of low walls which form no coherent pattern. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped partially levelled out earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography which is defined by field boundaries from NW-N-E.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.