Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilgar, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgar
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66776, -7.12089
- SMR number
- WM008-018----
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 slight elevated rise in gently undulating countryside, with excellent views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-017----) 270m to NW. Depicted as an oval shaped enclosure on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. This site has been levelled. Now visible as an oval shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Some burnt stones visible nearby in the plough-soil. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.