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
- 53.65615, -7.35098
- SMR number
- WM007-027----
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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 on a natural terrace in an area of pasture-land on the W face of a high hill overlooking Lough Derravarragh 140m to the SW. Its original location would have been 50m from the lake shore prior to drainage works. Crannóg (WM007-022----) 160m to SW, earthwork (WM007-027----) 160m to NW. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by two widely spaced banks on the 1911 ed. OS 6 inch map. This site has been levelled but is visible as a very faint crop mark on the 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.