Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltotan And Collinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltotan And Collinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39977, -7.32916
- SMR number
- WM033-061----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle NNE-SSW slope of low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM033-066----) 370m to the SSW. Only the cropmark of a levelled ringfort is visible on the 2005 OSI aerial photograph. Hachured as a large oval-shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1976 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 75m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse which are best preserved at N and are barely visible elsewhere. There is a small causeway across the fosse at N which may be an original entrance feature. The ringfort was bisected by a 19th century field boundary running NW-SE. The field to the S of this field boundary was in tillage in 2005, while the field to the N is in pasture.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 25 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.