Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kiltoom, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoom
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66537, -7.34059
- SMR number
- WM007-025----
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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 in pasture-land on the N face of a ridge which runs NW-SE, with good views to the NE & W. Castle (WM007-026----) 520m to E, church (WM007-008----) and graveyard (WM007-008001-) 400m to W. Annotated on the OS Fair Plan as a sub-triangular enclosure with some trees in the interior, marked ‘fort’. Traces of a poorly preserved bank remain from NE-E. The remainder of this site has been levelled. Visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.