Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
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
- 53.53445, -7.51039
- SMR number
- WM018-096----
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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 low rise, on a large ridge, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Barrow (WM018-097----) lies c. 90m to S. Earthwork shown on Larkin’s 1808 Map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible. A modern house and yard lie c. 100m to SW, on the public road. Levelled ringfort visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark defined by a dark green area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 24 January 2019
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.