Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilkenny Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny Abbey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48328, -7.81443
- SMR number
- WM023-029----
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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 rise, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1971 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 42m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank reduced to a scarp from SSW-W-N and incorporated into a field boundary at NE. There are several modern disturbance gaps in the bank. A shallow external fosse is visible at SW. The original entrance way is not recognisable. The interior has a SW-facing slope and has cultivation ridges running E-W.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.