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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
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.47518, -7.58587
SMR number
WM024-101----

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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 top of a rise, on the E side of a hill, in rough pasture and scrub, with good views to N, E and SE. Ringfort (WM024-102----) lies c. 150m to SE. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earthen bank, a shallow fosse, an outer bank and shallow external fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth at top 4.6m; basal Wth 1.7m) at E. A modern gap is visible at NNW. The inner bank is best preserved from W-N-SE and much disturbed from SE-S-W where a modern stone field fence has been constructed outside it. The outer bank is visible from NW-N-E, although it is not concentric with the inner because it has an angle at NE which extends in almost a straight line from NE-E. The remains of a low radial bank crosses the intervening space between the two enclosing banks at N with a gap at either end. A house site (WM024-101001-) is visible within the N quadrant and a second possible house site is visible in the S quadrant.

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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