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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64128, -7.01561
- SMR number
- WM009-021----
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 a natural hillock in gently undulating grassland, with good views to NW & S. Ringfort (WM009-022----) 130m to SSW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Ballinlough is 90m to S. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 44m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with slight remains of an external fosse. The bank has been disturbed in places. The interior is uneven, and rises towards the centre. There are three roughly circular depressions inside the bank on the N side. A rectangular house (WM009-021001-) is visible in the SW quadrant.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.