Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgawny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgawny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53070, -7.59695
- SMR number
- WM017-064----
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 NNW side of a hillock surrounded by other hummocks and gently undulating pasture with good views to SE. Faint outline of levelled ringfort is barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (35m N-S; 32m E-W) with pond annotated ‘Pollmore’ c. 25m to N. Shown as an oval-shaped enclosure, delimited by two concentric lines and annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Described in 1971 as levelled monument with a second undated ASI report stating, ‘The site has been levelled and no surface features remain’ (SMR File).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.