Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cormeen (kells Lower By., Moynalty Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormeen (kells Lower By., Moynalty Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cormeen Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cormeen Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.85759, -6.94610
- SMR number
- ME004-001----
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 top of the spine of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, it is described as ‘Cormeen Fort’ in gothic lettering on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 42m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 5.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) and hedge NW-NE, which morphs into a field bank SW-NW and is reduced to a scarp (at S: Wth 2m; H 1.1m) and hedge elsewhere. There are slight traces of an external fosse (Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.3m) SW-NW, and a berm (Wth 1.5m) separates the base of the scarp from an outer field bank (Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.3m) ESE-S. The original entrance is not identified.
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.
Date of revision: 3 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.