Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kinnegad, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinnegad
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45219, -7.10751
- SMR number
- WM027-070----
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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)
- 1799 · 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
On a low natural rise of ground or small hillock located 200m N of the Kinnegad River. A roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 28m WSW-ENE; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2m) only visible from W-N, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with faint traces of a shallow external fosse (top Wth 5.4m) only visible at S and NW. No entrance feature visible. Monument is not visible on 2005 OSI aerial photograph (www.osi.ie).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 12 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.