Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinrink, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrink
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76222, -7.24819
- SMR number
- ME008-019----
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 a slight rise in an undulating landscape. This is a slightly raised and domed grass-covered area (dims 36m WNW-ESE; 30m NE-SW; H 0.5-0.8m) defined by an earthen bank (at WNW: Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m) W-N that is largely reduced to a scarp (at ESE: Wth 4.3m; H 1.7m) and hedge. There are traces of an outer fosse (at WNW: Wth of base 4.5m; ext. D 0.1m) that is largely reduced to a berm (at ESE: Wth 2.7m). The original entrance (Wth of base 2.4m) is at E.
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: 31 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.