Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killinroan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinroan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40665, -7.79838
- SMR number
- WM030-068----
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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 top of a roughly circular-shaped natural knoll, in pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1983 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a band of differential growth around the edge of a natural hillock, which presumably represents a backfilled fosse. According to local information, this monument was a ringfort with a bank approximately 2-3ft in height and was levelled out c. 1980. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 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.