Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathstephen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathstephen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80949, -6.88535
- SMR number
- ME005-074----
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 the S-facing slope of Mullacreven Hill. It is depicted as an arc of hachures truncated by an E-W field bank at S only on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An arc of an earthen bank (Wth of base 6m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 1.45m) survives NW-NE (L c. 20m) but its E end is quarried. The interior slopes down steeply to the S where it is truncated by an E-W field bank. It was probably a rath.
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: 5 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.