Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpatrick (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60618, -7.42959
- SMR number
- WM011-057----
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 terrace in grassland on SW facing slope of rising ground with good views to NW & SE. Earthwork (WM011-058----) 130m to SSW. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow external fosse visible at S & W with possible entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at S. A post 1700 field fence running NE-SW intersects the site at SE, and a roadway intersects the perimeter from NW-N-NE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.