Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacnevan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacnevan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57189, -7.54012
- SMR number
- WM010-039----
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 slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views to the S & W. Levelled ringfort (WM010-038----) 75m to W. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m N-S) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and intervening wide flat-bottomed fosse. The inner bank is best preserved at N, and is levelled from SW-W. It has traces of dry stone walling on both its inner and outer faces. A sub-circular shaped hut site (WM010-039001-) is visible in the NE quadrant of the monument.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.