Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilfaughny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfaughny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49747, -7.85093
- SMR number
- WM022-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 rise marked on an OS trig. station (97m/318ft OD), in pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 Map of County Westmeath (). Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1976 as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark with a possible intervening fosse and outer bank on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.