Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Hilltown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hilltown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72081, -7.27100
- SMR number
- WM003-045----
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 top of a steep natural round-topped rise of ground with good views. Depicted as a polygonal shaped bi-vallate enclosure on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on any subsequent ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument levelled between 1837 and 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible. Faint outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.