Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintober, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43490, -7.62777
- SMR number
- WM031-045----
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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 low ridge, on S-facing slope of a high hill. Ringfort (WM031-046----) lies c. 106m to SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. The interior has a slight S-facing slope with the remains of broad cultivation ridges. visible. Monument is obscured today by an area of scrub on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.