Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintober, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43247, -7.61941
- SMR number
- WM031-048----
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 a slight rise, in pasture. Enclosure (WM031-118---) lies c. 100m to NE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32m) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with slight remains of an outer fosse. The interior is relatively level. A souterrain (WM031-048001-) is visible in the NW quadrant and a house site (WM031-048002-) is located in the centre. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography which appears to have been incorporated into an adjoining farmyard to N and W. A farm building appears to have been constructed on the bank at N (OSi map).
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 13 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.