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
- 53.46355, -7.57644
- SMR number
- WM024-152----
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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 rock outcrop, on S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with wide views to E, S and W. Monument described in 1971 as an unusually large, roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 54m) enclosed by a bank with wide deep external fosse. The bank of earth and stone is high and steep on the exterior although it is almost reduced to a scarp. It is denuded in several places by cattle. There are traces of a very slight outer bank visible from SSW-W-NW. The interior rises gradually from the perimeter towards the centre and is divided in two almost equal parts by a post-1700 field fence running generally NW-SE.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.