Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockdrin (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdrin (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured, Bells Hill
- Coordinates
- 53.57609, -7.30568
- SMR number
- WM012-177----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small hillock in undulating grassland, with restricted views. A raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 50m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (H 0.2m) that has been levelled at NE. A field fence running N-S and drain intersects the perimeter of the monument at W. Outline of levelled monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.