Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockdomny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdomny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40109, -7.75999
- SMR number
- WM030-097----
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 in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and and depicted as a D-shaped enclosure with the straight side to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork modified by linear field boundaries to S and W. M Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible today as a faint semicircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.