Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boolies (Fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolies (Fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77097, -7.12180
- SMR number
- ME009-021----
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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 W-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 36m NNE-SSW; 27m WNW-ESE) defined by a grass-covered bank of earth and stone (at W: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) separated by a rounded fosse (at W: Wth of top 6m; ext. D 0.35m) from an outer bank (at W: Wth of base 5.5m; ext. H 0.4m), both of which only survive SSE-W-N. The perimeter at E is represented by a small bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) and the monument may have been truncated on this side. There is an entrance in the inner bank at S (Wth of base 2.5m) lined with a large stone on each side. Outside this is a slight causeway (Wth of top 2.1m; H 0.2m) and a gap through the outer bank. Outside the outer bank at NW is a possible hut-site (int. diam. 3.3m) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth of base 3-3.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). It is attached to the outer bank of the rath but an entrance is not identified.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.