Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Keoltown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keoltown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49418, -7.40902
- SMR number
- WM025-029----
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, flat topped ridge, to N of Lough Ennell in generally level, low-lying pasture. A townland boundary lies c. 70m to E. Annotated 'Fort' and depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a D-shaped earthwork, outlined by a bank, with the straight side along a field fence at W. Levelled monument described in 1981 as a large, roughly circular-shaped depression which could represent a quarried ringwork. There are small quarry like pits cut into the side of the ridge at N and SW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.