Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumsawry Or Summerbank, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsawry Or Summerbank
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76088, -7.14719
- SMR number
- ME009-028----
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 low rise in a low-lying landscape, with a small NE-SW canalised stream or drain curving around it c. 50-100m distant E-N-NW. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 42m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined a slight earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) NE-E and W-N (at W: Wth of base 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) with some large stones. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank (L c. 35m) at S.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.