Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killachonna (clibborn), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killachonna (clibborn)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40838, -7.74841
- SMR number
- WM030-082----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small rise, on a S-facing slope, just below the summit of a large ridge, in pasture, with good views to S and W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork abutting a townland boundary to S and W. Monument described as an oval-shaped area (dims. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is low and is best preserved from E-S and is almost reduced to a scarp from S-W-N-E. The fosse is best preserved from SE-S-W where it appears to have been re-cut as a drain associated with a townland boundary which runs along the outer edge of the fosse around this arc. The fosse is faint elsewhere from W-N-E-SE. There are no indications of an entrance. The interior has a W-facing slope and is scattered with stones which appear to derive from field clearance. There is a possible house site (WM030-082001-) in the S quadrant. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 09 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.