Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85647, -6.93092
- SMR number
- ME004-002----
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 E-facing spine of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 39m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 5.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.8m), largely reduced to an external scarp (H 1-1.2m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The perimeter is slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE.
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 Moroe
Date of revision: 3 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.