Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killarechurch, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarechurch
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.47809, -7.57131
- SMR number
- WM024-116----
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 at the N end of a high ridge, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 60m NW-SE). Monument described in 1979 no surface remains visible. Outline of levelled monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.