What is recorded here

Fairy fort / ringfort in Kilgar is a fairy fort or ringfort in Kilgar, County Westmeath, Ireland. The site sits on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions, and the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicts it as a sub-rectangular area measuring approximately 42 metres north-south and 46 metres east-west. The earthworks are almost completely levelled, surviving only as a four-metre-wide band of vegetation, while vague traces of two rectangular hut sites and cultivation ridges aligned north-northwest to south-southeast remain in the interior. A gap in the vegetation at the west-northwest may represent an entrance, and the site is clearly visible as a cropmark on a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken in November 2011.

Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019----) 200m to SE. This site has been almost completely levelled, now visible only as a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 42m N-S; 46m E-W) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior has vague traces of two rectangular hut sites (WM008-016001-/016002-). Cultivation ridges aligned NNW-SSE run across the interior of the monument. A gap (Wth 4.5m) in the band of vegetation at WNW may represent an entrance. This site is clearly visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017

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