Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Gillardstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gillardstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64817, -7.24846
- SMR number
- WM007-062----
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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 the shoulder of a hill in pasture-land, with good views from E-W-S. Ringfort (WM007-060----) 220m to NW. Small lake 220m to SW. Annotated as 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan where it is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The site has been levelled and today there are no surface remains visible. The levelled monument is isible as a faint circular crop mark (approx. diam 42m N-S) on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.