Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Vilanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vilanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47695, -7.28807
- SMR number
- WM026-110----
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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
The remains of a roughly-circular tree-lined enclosure which could be the remains of a possible ringfort are visible on OSI 2005 aerial photograph (pers. comm. C. McCormack). Depicted as a rectangular shaped-area of waste land on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a small natural hillock on the 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map. This enclosure may be a ringfort, alternatively it may be the remains of a small circular field of post medieval date which encloses a small natural hillock that was fenced off by landowner in the 19th century. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.