Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knightswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60123, -7.37284
- SMR number
- WM012-021----
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 the N face of the summit of a prominent hill in grassland, overlooked by higher ground to W. A large circular-shaped, slightly raised area (approx. diam. 43m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank with a slight fosse and entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at S. The bank is best preserved from ESE-S-SW (Wth 3.7m; Int. H 0.1m at E), and is fragmentary or levelled to a slight scarp elsewhere. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running across the interior from NE-SW. A field fence running NNW-SSE originally intersected the monument from NE-E. The site is now almost completely surrounded by a quarry which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.