Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40957, -7.66884
- SMR number
- WM031-075----
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 in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork to N of a small settlement and a limekiln. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork c. 25m to NW of the Athlone to Mullingar railway line. Levelled monument is visible today on OSi aerial photography as a faint light-green coloured rectilinear-shaped cropmark.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.