Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonickilvant, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonickilvant
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52456, -7.20426
- SMR number
- WM020-076----
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 top of a hillock, in gently undulating pasture, with bog to S and W. Annotated 'Lisdillon' and depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 29.40m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by a bank with the remains of an external fosse. The bank is best preserved from WNW-N and has been reduced to a scarp (H 2m) elsewhere. The scarp has been levelled from NE-E and ESE-S. A large quarry hole has been dug in the scarp at E. The external fosse is only visible from SSW-SW-WSW. The original entrance is not visible. The remains of a house site (WM020-076001-) are visible in E quadrant of ringfort. Monument visible today as a roughly subcircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.