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
- 53.47484, -7.57970
- SMR number
- WM024-103----
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 undulating rough pasture, which is overlooked by higher ground. Ringfort (WM024-104----) lies c. 55m to S. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank with faint traces of an external fosse, a gap (Wth at top 3.4m; basal Wth 1.2m) at ENE probably represents the entrance, although there is no definite trace of a causeway. The bank is well-defined from S-W-N and is almost reduced to a scarp from N-E-S. The interior has a gentle ENE-facing slope. The monument is almost completely obscured by impenetrable vegetation.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.