Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rahard, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahard
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76311, -7.07267
- SMR number
- ME009-036003-
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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
Located at the E-facing crest of a slope and at the headwaters of a small E-W stream. The raised rath (ME009-036----), which could be described as a motte, is at the NE angle of a rectangular grass-covered platform (dims c. 40-70m m ENE-WSW; c. 70m NNW-SSE) defined by scarps and fosses. This could serve as an annexe for the rath or as a bailey. It is crossed by an ENE-WSW relict field bank that also crosses the interior of the rath and extends off to the WSW of this enclosure.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload;31 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.