Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killua, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killua
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Coordinates
- 53.65715, -7.00318
- SMR number
- WM009-010----
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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 prominent natural rise in the Deerpark of Killua Castle demesne. Killua Castle 480m to NNE. A folly depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Monument' in Gothic script is located 200m to NE. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31.5m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. There is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at E. The outer bank is visible only from SE-S. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre. This ringfort may have been reused as a landscape feature in the post-1700 period. The earthwork may have some association with the Deerpark of Killua Castle. Depicted as a tree plantation and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map which casts doubt about the antiquity of this earthwork.
See attached plan and section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.