Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kiltoom, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoom
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65907, -7.35305
- SMR number
- WM007-023----
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 a natural terrace on the WSW facing slope of a prominent hill overlooking Lough Derravaragh 200m to the W. Levelled earthwork (WM007-019----) 85m to SW. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork. Visible as a circular cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure planted with trees c. 80m E of Lough Derravaragh on the 1837 ed. OS 6-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.