Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmaglish, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmaglish
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58349, -7.32489
- SMR number
- WM012-121----
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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 SSE facing slope of prominent rise in grassland with fairly good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM012-118---) 350m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair plan map as an oval shaped earthwork with its long axis N-S, annotated ‘fort’. Poorly preserved monument on which the N half has been levelled as depicted on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Present remains consist of a semi-circular area defined by a curving bank visible from E-S-NW (approx. diam. 20m E-W) and wide flat bottomed external fosse as depicted on the 25-inch OS map.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.