Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37277, -7.73747
- SMR number
- WM036-031----
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 rough pasture, with extensive views to N, NE and E and overlooked by higher ground to SE and S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a long oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 35m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by a steep scarp (H 3-4m) with no evidence of an enclosing rounding fosse. The interior is irregular, rising unevenly towards the centre with cultivation ridges running N-S across the surface. Monument is visible today as a long oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.