Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brittas, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81611, -6.76535
- SMR number
- ME005-090----
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 the summit of a hillock in an undulating landscape. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 35m NW-SE; 34.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) largely reduced to a scarp (at SE: Wth 6m; H 2. 5m) with intermittently visible outer facing stones. The bank and the interior support mature deciduous trees and there is no visible entrance but there is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; ext. D 0.4m) S-NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.