Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpatrick (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (fore By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62389, -7.22452
- SMR number
- WM008-079----
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 on steep NE facing slope of a prominent ridge in undulating countryside. Motte (WM008-080---) 200m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. The bank has a modern disturbance gap at N, and an entrance gap (Wth 4m) at ENE. The interior slopes from NW-SE. In the S quadrant of the interior, adjoining the inner face of the bank is a steep flat-topped sub-triangular shaped earthen platform.
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 April 2017
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.