Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kiltoom, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoom
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65837, -7.35486
- SMR number
- WM007-019----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated today on a natural terrace in an area of pasture-land on the W face of a high hill overlooking Lough Derravaragh 110m to the W. Originally located on the E shoreline of Lough Derravaragh as shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled earthwork (WM007-023----) 60m to NE, levelled earthwork (WM007-020----) 130m to SE. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Visible as a crop mark on 2005 OSI aerial photograph and on Digital Globe Aerial photograph taken November 2011. Depicted as an irregular grove of trees on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and hachured as a sub-circular enclosure (approx. diam. 31m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp and external fosse on the 1911 ed. OS 25 inch map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 April 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.