Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeenbrack, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenbrack
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47354, -7.59529
- SMR number
- WM024-098----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight rise, on the SW side of a hill, in pasture. Monument described as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 32.6m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with slight remains of an entrance at NE. The low inner bank is visible from W-N-NE and has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.3m) from E-S. The inner bank/scarp is damaged from NE-E-ESE and a portion of it has been dug away at E. The fosse is only visible from WSW-N-E. The narrow, steep outer bank is visible from NW-N-ENE and is almost completely levelled at S. The interior has a gentle ENE-facing slope and bears rock outcrop. There are no internal features visible.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.