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Ringfort - rath

Kilpatrick (Corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilpatrick, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilpatrick (Corkaree By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.60320, -7.41637
SMR number
WM011-066----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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. Ringfort (WM011-067----) 165m to ENE. Ringfort (WM011-068----) 170m to SE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. The bank is levelled from SSW-W-NW. The interior has a general slope from SW-NE. A large quarry hole is visible in the interior. An ESB pole has been erected on the E perimeter of the monument, and there is a small modern pump house at S. A field fence running NNW-SSE intersects the monument from D-W-NW, and a second NE-SW field fence intersects the perimeter from NNW-N. The monument appears to have been completely levelled as it is only visible as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 August 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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