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
- 53.37200, -7.73162
- SMR number
- WM036-032----
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 elevated ground, in pasture, with limited views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Bivallate ringfort described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The bank (ext. H 2-3m) is fairly steep on the exterior and the intervening fosse is shallow. There is a low outer bank. The interior of the earthwork is quite uneven and is obscured by vegetation. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork 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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.