What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kiltotan and Collinstown is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kiltotan and Collinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on the gentle north-northeast to south-southwest slope of a low rise with good views in all directions, the site was hachured as a large oval-shaped enclosure on the 1837 edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map. A 1976 account described the roughly circular area, measuring 75 metres east to west, as defined by an earthen bank and external fosse, with a small causeway at the north that may be an original entrance feature. The levelled monument was bisected by a 19th-century field boundary, and only the cropmark of the ringfort is visible on the 2005 Ordnance Survey of Ireland aerial photograph.

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

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