What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinriddera is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballinriddera, County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1837 edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map depicts it as a circular shaped enclosure located forty-five metres south of the townland boundary with Ballinphort. The monument is levelled with no surface remains visible, yet a cropmark of the ringfort is clearly visible on a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken in November 2011. It sits one hundred and ten metres south of a ringfort and seventy-five metres north-west of another.

Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped enclosure 45m S of townland boundary with Ballinphort. Ringfort (WM007-071----) 110m to N. Ringfort (WM007-079----) 75m to SE. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Cropmark of levelled ringfort clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 April 2017

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