Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpatrick (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53769, -7.51328
- SMR number
- WM018-054----
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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 sloping ground in pasture with marshy valley to WNW. Ringfort (WM018-095----) and moated site (WM018-053----) c. 140m to S and c. 195m to WNW, respectively. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map.
Monument described in 1983 as the faint outline of a recently levelled circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) clearly visible in the field. There appears to have been a good deal of recent field fence clearance and land reclamation in the vicinity. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark defined by a light brown-green area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.