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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
53.47397, -7.58378
SMR number
WM024-102----

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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. 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

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

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