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Ringfort - rath

Kilbeg, County Westmeath, Ireland

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Townland
Kilbeg
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.38451, -7.56045
SMR number
WM037-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 SW-facing slope of a ridge running E-W, in pasture, with good views to S, W and NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large roughly circular-shaped earthwork with a rectangular-shaped building abutting to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 41m ENE-WSW; 36m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp with slight traces of an external fosse only visible from NW-N-NE. No clear entrance feature visible. The monument is fully enclosed by a field fence from NE-E-S-W. At W, NW, N and NNE. There are livestock gaps at W, NW, N and NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope with evidence of rock outcrop close to the surface. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

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

Date of upload: 16 December 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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