Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballykilmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38733, -7.36872
- SMR number
- WM039-002----
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
Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but shown as an oval-shaped field in the the SE corner of a larger rectangular field. In pasture, on top of a low E-W ridge with good views to N, E and W. Ballykilmore Lough visible 55m to the N. Ringfort (WM039-003----) 150m to NNE. Roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 30m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by a low earth and stone bank with traces of a narrow fosse only visible at SW which may not be an original feature. No entrance feature visible. The enclosing feature consists of a single earth and stone bank visible at E and W. At N and S the enclosing bank changes into a double bank with intervening fosse of post-1700 appearance. The interior of the ringfort is uneven.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 02 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.