Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnaboy, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnaboy
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87837, -6.89903
- SMR number
- ME001-001----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) that slopes down to the S. It is defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 2.3m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) with some bushes that is largely reduced to a scarp down to the interior NW-NE and an external scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but the entrance (Wth c. 3.2m) is at SSE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 31 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.