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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42408, -7.34889
- SMR number
- WM033-030----
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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
On a slight NE facing slope in undulating countryside. Roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank best preserved from W-N-NE, with slight remains of an external fosse best preserved from NE-E, no entrance feature visible. The enclosing element of the ringfort has been defaced at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW which intersects the monument from S-SW. Depicted as an antiquity and annotated as ‘Fort’, on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.