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Ringfort - rath

Killeenbrack, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killeenbrack, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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