Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keenaghan (kells Lower By), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keenaghan (kells Lower By)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86527, -6.81449
- SMR number
- ME002-049----
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 on a shoulder of an E-facing slope. It is not recorded on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is regarded locally as a rath and there is known to be a change in soil quality in its vicinity. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 25m N-S) defined by a slight scarp ENE-S-WSW. It is truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank at N and is not evident in the field to the N.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.