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
- 53.47332, -7.58969
- SMR number
- WM024-099----
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 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.