Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbeg, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38797, -7.58080
- SMR number
- WM037-001----
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
Situated on a low hill, in pasture, with wide views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which is immediately E of the Offaly-Westmeath county boundary. Bivallate ringfort described in 1973 as a fairly regular circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is wide and low and is visible from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. A shallow intervening fosse is present from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. A low outer bank is visible from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and the surface is fairly even. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.