Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynahown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35670, -7.83236
- SMR number
- WM035-008----
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 rise, in pasture, with good views to S. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a small oval-shaped enclosure. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 34m N-S; 37m E-W). Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible, the earthwork appears to have been levelled during recent land clearance work. Levelled ringfort is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.