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Ringfort - rath

Killeen, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killeen, 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
Killeen
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
53.45951, -7.52295
SMR number
WM025-123----

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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 a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a subrectilinear-shaped earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a portion of a roughly rectilinear-shaped earthwork defined by a field boundary to SW.
Monument described in 1971 as a subrectilinear-shaped earthwork on the NE side of a stone field fence running WNW-ESE. It is defined by a low and narrow bank of earth and stone which is reduced to a scarp at WNW and ESE. The bank is almost linear to NE and there is a slight corner at ENE. There are traces of internal stone facing. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a gentle SSW-facing slope and the SSW quadrant has been quarried away. There is a house site (WM025-123001-) in the NNE quadrant and a curvilinear depression at N could be the remains of a possible souterrain (WM025-123002-). Other depressions at NNE and SW are probable quarry holes. There are no surface remains visible of the monument on the SSW side of the stone field fence, where a portion appears to have been removed by quarrying.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 24 September 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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