Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgill Lower, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgill Lower
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86722, -6.69451
- SMR number
- ME003-027----
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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 on the flat top (diam. c. 45m) of a hill. Archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping in connection with a gas pipe-line during 1991 identified a curving fosse (Wth 0.5-0.9m; D 0.2-0.9m) that was sampled (E000636) in three places but produced nothing apart from charcoal-flecked soil. A large pit (diam. 2.3m; D 0.9m) filled with boulders and charcoal-flecked soil produced some pig and sheep bones and a sherd of coarse pottery. A smaller pit (L 1. 7m; D 0.2m) produced three similar sherds, thought to be souterrain ware. A few other pits produced no artefacts apart from flecks of charcoal, but the features can be interpreted as the remains of a rath. (Walsh 1991, 1992)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 August, 2016
References
Walsh, C. 1991 Excavation of a probable ploughed out ringfort at Drumgill Lower, Co. Meath, carried out on behalf of Bord Gais. Unpublished report, Author
Walsh, C. 1992 Drumgill Lower. (Ploughed out) enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland. 35, No. 100. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.