Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69859, -7.49667
- SMR number
- WM002-014----
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 almost level poorly drained land, stream 30m to NW, bog 100m to E now planted with trees, Kilmore House 65m to SSE. A circular-shaped area (diam. 34m E-W) enclosed by a wide low earthen bank and wide shallow external fosse which has been filled in at E. No definite entrance feature identified. The wet rushy interior is fairly even and is featureless. There are several gaps in the enclosing bank.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.