Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmainhamwood, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmainhamwood
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85218, -6.81013
- SMR number
- ME005-027----
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 on a rise that is on a small NE-SW ridge overlooking the NW-SE Kilmainham stream, which is c. 140m to the SW at the closest point. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 34.3m NW-SE; c. 31m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.5m) ESE-W-NW, that is reduced to a scarp (at NNE: Wth 3.2m; H 3m) with a stone-faced field bank at the base elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.