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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
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60034, -7.41044
SMR number
WM011-073----

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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 the S face of a hill in grassland, with good views overlooking Lough Owel 700m to S & W. Kilpatrick Well (WM011-074---) 165m to SW. A large sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 44m N-S) enclosed by two substantial earth and stone banks and an intervening wide deep fosse, with a slight external fosse. The inner bank has disturbance gaps at W & ESE and is almost completely levelled from S-SW. The external fosse is only visible at N. There is an entrance at NNE, represented by a gap (Wth 4m) in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 6.6m; H 0.45m) across the fosse and a gap (Wth 4.8m) through the outer bank. Vague traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior. A stream running N-S which forms the townland boundary with Clanhugh Demesne intersects the site at SE. The remains of a field boundary running NE-SW intersects the site at W, and another field boundary running WNW-ESE intersects the perimeter from S-SW. Outline of monument clearly visible on aerial photograph taken by Cambridge University in 1968 (CUCAP AVO054).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 August 2017

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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