Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardillon, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardillon
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50101, -7.30943
- SMR number
- WM026-104----
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 prominent rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with views restricted by surrounding land. Ringfort (WM026-014----) lies c. 70m to SW. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork defined by a scarp and . Levelled monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 40.5m NE-SW; 37.5m NW-SE) defined by a very slight scarp (max. H 1m) with no visible trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. The interior falls gently towards the perimeter at NW and SE and there are vague traces of cultivation ridges running NE-SW. This monument was probably a ringfort.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.