TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Footstown Little, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Footstown Little, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Footstown Little
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.80693, -6.61177
SMR number
ME006-048----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a small hillock in an undulating landscape. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 50m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5-7m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 2-2.5m) with some bushes which is reduced to a scarp (H 2m) E-S. This is separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 10-11m; Wth of base 2.5-3m; ext. D 1-2m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 8-11m; ext. H 2.2-3m) with some trees, and there are slight traces of an outer fosse NW-N (max. ext. diam. 85m N-S). The outer bank has been spread into a platform at W (Wth of base 12.5m E-W; Wth of top 7.5m E-W; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.2m) with slight banks on the inner and outer edges SSW-NNW and at NE. There is an entrance through the outer bank (Wth of base 4m) and a causeway at E but an entrance to the interior is not clear.

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.

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 26 October 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Meath All County Meath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map