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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53611, -7.51311
- SMR number
- WM018-095----
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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 the NW side of a ridge running NE-SW, in pasture with excellent views from NW-N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (long-axis E-W). Monument described as an oval-shaped area (dims. 35m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The low bank is reduced to a steep scarp in places. A gap (Wth at top 3.4m; basal Wth 2m) at SSE may represent the entrance. A very narrow fosse is visible from ESE-SE-SSE. The interior has a gentle NE-facing slope with vague traces of cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW. A possible house site (WM018-095001-) is visible in S quadrant. Levelled ringfort visible as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.