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Ringfort - rath

Farranaglogh, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Farranaglogh, 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
Farranaglogh
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cave Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Cave Fort
Coordinates
53.79070, -7.19450
SMR number
ME008-006----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape, it is described as ‘Cave Fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 OS 6-inch maps. This is a raised, circular and grass-covered area (diam. 48m NW-SE: 46m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW : Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.3m) W-NNE largely reduced to a scarp (at NW: H 2.1m) separated by a slight berm (Wth 1-2m) from a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-7.2m Wth of base 2.5-4.2m; ext. D 0.8m at NE to 1.7m at SW) from an outer bank (at NE: Wth of base 4.8m; ext. H 0.8m) that is best preserved W-N and E-SW (at SW: Wth of base 8.7m; Wth of top 3.8m; ext. H 2.1m). There is a ramp entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 1.8m; H 0.5m) at E. Inside the perimeter at W is a depression (dims 11.2m N-S; 2.5-3.5m E-W; D 0.35m) with an arm running E (L 11.2m; Wth of top 2.8m; D 0.5m) from its S end which terminates in a circular depression (diam. 4.6m). This is probably a collapsed souterrain, implied in the name ‘Cave Fort’.

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.

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