Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37508, -7.38407
- SMR number
- WM039-008----
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 undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (approx. overall dims. 23m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE). Not depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 18 December 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.