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Ringfort - rath

Druminiskin, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Druminiskin, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Druminiskin
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Black Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Black Fort
Coordinates
53.84188, -6.91561
SMR number
ME004-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located toward the bottom of a SW-facing slope. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (37.5m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) that is bisected by a NNE-SSW field bank and the features barely survive on the W side of this. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth at base 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) that is reduced to a scarp (at NW: Wth 3m; H 0.6m) SSW-N-NNE. The inner bank is separated by an external fosse (at SE: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 1m) from an outer bank (at SE: Wth of base 4.5m; ext. H 0.5m) NNE-S-SSW. The fosse is reduced to a berm (at NW: Wth 5m) and the outer bank to a broad rise (Wth 8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) SSW-N-NNE. There is a ramp entrance (Wth of base 2m) through the inner bank at SE, and there are traces of a third outer bank (at SE: Wth 5m; H 0.1-0.3m) NE-S-SSW.

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: 3 September 2018
Amended: 14/12/2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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