Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balsitric, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balsitric
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82458, -6.68370
- SMR number
- ME006-064----
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
Visible as a circular feature on the aerial images of OSI (1995, 2000, 2005), Google Earth (2010) and Bing (2013). It is situated on top of a drumlin in a gently undulating landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. of top 34m N-S; 33m E-W; diam. of base 46.5m N-S; 45.2m E-W) that remains untilled in a field of cereals. It is defined by scarps (H 0.8m at W to 1.4-1.6m generally), but there is no evidence of a fosse. The interior is level but slopes down to the E and S (H c. 1.8m) and a slight dip (L c. 3m) in the perimeter at SE suggests that there may have been an entrance here, although as the lowest point of the platform it may have been created by vehicles.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 May, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.