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Ringfort - rath

Killua, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killua, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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