Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickleck, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickleck
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85872, -6.76194
- SMR number
- ME005-020----
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
Situated towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope with a small E-W stream circling around it SE-SW c. 60m distant. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 28.5m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at ESE: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.5m) that melds into the hillslope NW-NE, with a fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 6.4m; ext. D 1m) ESE-S-W. The original entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) is at SSE, and the rath is surrounded by field banks NE-S-SW.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 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.