Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbrennan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbrennan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42805, -7.36591
- SMR number
- WM033-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A sub-triangular shaped enclosure is depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a tree plantation and not as antiquity, on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). On the OS Fair Plan the monument is depicted as a sub-triangular-shaped earthwork delimited by a scarp and annotated on the map as 'fort'. Situated on top of a prominent hillock with good views to NW and N of undulaing pasture. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map the monument is depicted as a sub-triangular shaped earthwork with straight side at S and W with bank at NE running diagonally from NW-SE. The cropmark of this bank on the NE side is visible on bing maps aerial photography taken in 2011.
See attached document containing bing maps aerial photograph which shows shadow of levelled NE bank of ringfort.
Compiled by : Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 08 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.