Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Kilfaughny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfaughny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50479, -7.85761
- SMR number
- WM022-007001-
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 a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. A roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure to the immediate SW of Kilfaughny Castle (WM022-007----) which is defined by a scarp (approx. L 15m) running N-S along the W side. Annotated ‘Fortified Wall’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where Kilfaughny Castle is shown as a rectangular-shaped ruin standing inside a rectangular shaped earthwork with ‘fortified wall’ to SW side and a larger rectangular-shaped earthwork to S.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.