Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilrush Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrush Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64582, -7.01148
- SMR number
- WM009-019----
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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 a low ridge in grassland. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s map 1808 map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580 ). An oval shaped area (diam. 22m NNE-SSW; 32m ESE-WNW) enclosed by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 1.2m; ext. D 0.3m). The interior rises towards the centre where a rectangular house site (WM009-019001-) is visible. Possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at W. Traces of cultivation ridges run across the interior of the monument from WSW-ESE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 April 2017
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.