What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyhoreen is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyhoreen, County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on low-lying wet grassland, the site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan and annotated as a fort, while the same enclosure appears on the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. The ringfort was levelled before it was omitted from the revised 1911 edition of the Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map, leaving only vague suggestions of a circular scarp with a diameter of approximately 37 metres on a north-northeast to south-southwest axis and a height of 1.4 metres. The perimeter of this scarp is intersected by a drain running north-northeast to south-southwest, and a bank is present at the northeast.

Situated on low lying wet grassland. Ringfort (WM011-094----) and mill race 100m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Ringfort was levelled between these two dates. All that remains are vague suggestions of a circular scarp (approx. diam 37m NE-SW; H 1.4m). The perimeter is intersected by a drain running NNE-SSW and bank at NE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017

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