Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37366, -7.39958
- SMR number
- WM038-026----
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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 a circular-shaped coppice of deciduous trees, now replaced by a young coniferous plantation. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a partially levelled earthwork on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1982 as a high roughly oval-shaped platform (approx. dims. 15m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by a scarp (approx. H 2m), the deciduous trees have been planted on the upper edge of it. There is no visible trace of an external fosse which would have been considerably disturbed by the forestry drainage channels which come right up to base of the platform on all sides. This may have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as it is obscured by the coniferous plantation.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 17 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.