What is recorded here

Partially hachured is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilpatrick (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map depicts the site as a semicircular earthwork truncated from southwest through west to north by a townland boundary running north-northeast to south-southwest. In the late 1970s, the monument was described as a partially levelled semicircular area approximately 40 metres north-east to south-west and 34 metres north-west to south-east, enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. This bank measured 0.6 metres high internally, 0.9 metres high externally, 4.6 metres wide at the base, and 0.7 metres wide at the top.

Situated on the NW side of a high ridge, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork which has been truncated from SW-W-N by a townland boundary running NNE-SSW. Enclosing element of monument is not depicted on NW side of townland boundary. Monument intersected at SW by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument described in the late 1970s as a partially levelled semicircular-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m; basal Wth 4.6m; Wth at top 0.7m) visible from N-E and levelled from E-S. A field fence running NW-SE across the SW quadrant incorporates the perimeter from S-SW. The monument is truncated at NW by a modern field fence running NE-SW. There is no evidence of the enclosing element of the monument on NW side of this boundary. There are vague traces of cultivation ridges running NW-SE across the NE half of the interior. Monument is visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark defined by a light brown-green area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 February 2019

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