Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Bigwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bigwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.74489, -7.30618
- SMR number
- WM001-037----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on NNE face of low hillock, on well drained pasture-land. No surface remains visible of levelled monument visible as a crop-mark on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Depicted as an irregular-shaped platform on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and as an irregular shaped field on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. The field was reclaimed in the 1960s when the enclosing element of the monument was probably levelled. The enclosing element of the levelled earthwork (Dims. 60m NNE-SSW; 40m WNW-ESE) survives upstanding only from N-E-SE where it forms a field boundary hedge, elsewhere a low scarp (0.8m) is visible which represents the outline of the levelled earthwork. The interior of the possible ringfort slopes from SW-NE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.