Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinderry (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinderry (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41164, -7.66570
- SMR number
- WM031-076----
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 small hillock, in pasture, with extensive views to the NE, E and SE and overlooked by a higher ridge to W. Ringfort (WM031-077----) lies c. 120m to E. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 37m E-W; 36m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is best preserved from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW, but is very faint from SW-W-NW and from NE-E-SE. The fosse is best preserved from N-NE and from SE-S-SW and is very shallow from SW-W-NW-N. There is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a SE-facing slope and an uneven surface with no features visible. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
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.