Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a ridge in undulating pasture, in area of rock outcrop with extensive views to S, W and N. Annotated ‘Kilpatrick Fort’ on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map and depicted as an irregular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as an irregular almost D-shaped area (dims. 35m N-S; 32m NW-SE) with a short straight side to NW, enclosed by a bank of earth and stone. The bank is best preserved from ENE-E-S and is very faint from S-SW and from WNW-N. The remains of an old field wall are built against the outside of the bank from N-E and the monument is cut by a public road running NNE-SSW to E. There is a narrow fosse-like depression outside the bank from N-E but this may be an old field drain and there is a quarry depression outside the bank at E. There is no sign of an entrance. The interior is quite disturbed except for the S and SW quadrants where the ground slopes up from the perimeter towards the centre. Two collapsed areas indicated a probable souterrain (WM031-066001-) are visible in the N and NE quadrants. The interior to N of the souterrain is also disturbed. Monument is visible today as a roughly D-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 21 November 2019