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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
53.47332, -7.58969
SMR number
WM024-099----

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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 rise, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM024-100----) lies c. 30m to SE. Monument described as a large subcircular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, a wide deep fosse and an outer bank that is incorporated into a field boundary from W-N and has drystone masonry facing along its interior. A bank on the exterior of the outer bank at S may be part of an old field system. There is a well-defined entrance in the inner bank (Wth at top 4.8m; basal Wth 2.4m) and outer bank at SE. There is a causeway (overall Wth 6.9m; Wth at top 4.1m; H 1m) at SE and a low bank (overall Wth 0.8m; Wth at top 0.4m; H 0.25m) defines the NE side of the causeway. The interior has a NW-facing slope and contains a complex of house sites and enclosures (WM024-099001-), low dividing banks and depressions. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument on 04/05/1984 (SMR file).

See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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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