Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hilltown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hilltown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71685, -7.25684
- SMR number
- WM003-047----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A roughly oval shaped area (approx. diam. 45m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank, shallow fosse and a slight external bank only visible from S-W. Entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at SSE. The interior rises appreciably from the interior towards the centre. A post-1700 earthen bank has been placed around the site to delimit a woodland plantation that is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.