Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boynaghbought, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boynaghbought
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.88747, -6.81038
- SMR number
- ME002-014----
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
Situated in a slight fold at the crest of an E-facing slope. It is visible as a vegetation mark on vertical aerial photographs from the 1970s (GSIAP: N 746/747). This is a circular area (diam. 41.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a low bank (at NNW: Wth of base 6.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) and a slight fosse (at NNW: Wth 3.1m; ext. D 0.1m) NW-E, and the fosse can be traced as a band of lush vegetation elsewhere. It can be seen on OSI images (1995).
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.