Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintober, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.43450, -7.62448
- SMR number
- WM031-047----
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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 hill, in pasture, with commanding views to E, S and W. Ballintober House 300m to SW. Possible ringfort (WM031-046----) lies c. 106m to SW. Depicted as a circular grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) enclosed by a low earth and stone scarp. There are the remains of a low drystone wall set on top of the scarp from WSW-W-WNW. A field boundary running NW-SE adjoins the scarp at ENE. No clear entrance feature visible. The interior is level and some oak trees grow within and on the scarp. This may have been a ringfort which was converted into a landscaped tree ring in the post-1700 period. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-planted area 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.