Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpatrick (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (Moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42127, -7.56284
- SMR number
- WM031-066----
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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)
- 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 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
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.