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Ringfort - rath

Kilgawny, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilgawny, 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
Kilgawny
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.53950, -7.60125
SMR number
WM017-035----

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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 top of a natural rise, on the SSE side, in gently undulating, rough pasture. Possibly the remains of a ringfort that was modified as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. The monument is visible on Digital Globe photography as a roughly oval-shaped area defined by trees. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly D-shaped tree-planted enclosure (approx. dims. 26m ENE-WSW; 25m NNW-SSE) with straight side at N. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 22m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) defined by a bank which has been reduced to a scarp. The bank and scarp were modified at a later date from SE-S-W-N. The original entrance is not visible and there is no visible trace of a fosse. A gentle, modern bank of earth and stone defines the exterior from N-E-ESE. The interior has a gentle SSE-facing slope with vague remnants of cultivation ridges (long-axis NNW-SSE).

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 03 December 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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