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
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47397, -7.58378
- SMR number
- WM024-102----
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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 top of a rise, on the E side of a hill, in rough pasture and scrub, with good views to N, E and SE. Ringforts (WM024-101----/105----) lie c. 150m to NW and c. 160m to SE, respectively. Monument described in 1971 as a much disturbed oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank and a fosse which are truncated across the W portion by a field wall running NNW-SSE. The bank is substantial from N-E and elsewhere it is low and almost reduced to a scarp. A modern bank encroaches on the ringfort bank at N. There are the slight remains of an outer fosse. A gap (Wth at top 5.39m; basal Wth 2.4m) in the bank at E probably represents the entrance, although there is no visible trace of a causeway. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope with some rock outcrop.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.