Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garmanagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garmanagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84840, -6.76166
- SMR number
- ME005-053----
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 slight S-facing slope. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 30.5m NW-SE; 28.5m NE-SW) that slopes down to the S. It is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) incorporated into the bank of a farm lane inside the monument N-ESE, and an outer fosse deepened to a drain (Wth of base 2.1m) N-ESE, but the perimeter is largely reduced to a scarp (at SSW: Wth 1.1m; H 0.5m). The original entrance is not identified, and the monument remains unplanted in a forest since before 1995 (OSAP).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.