Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boynagh (kells Lower By., Kilmainham Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boynagh (kells Lower By., Kilmainham Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84263, -6.80993
- SMR number
- ME005-043----
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 on a steep E-facing slope and c. 200m N of Boynagh Hill House and it had been adapted a tree-ring. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 49.5m N-S; 46.5m E-W) that slopes down to the E and is planted with deciduous trees. It is defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of base 6.7m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.8m) incorporated into a field bank S-W-N, and a scarp (at E: Wth 1.5m; H 2.1m) elsewhere, with an outer drain (at E: Wth of top 1.8m; Wth of base 1.45m; ext. D 0.55m) WNW-E. The original entrance might be a gap (Wth of base 2m) at SE.
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: 4 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.