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
- 53.75218, -7.15281
- SMR number
- ME009-040----
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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
Located on a prominent rise in an undulating landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m ENE-WSW; 37m N-S) defined by the slight remains of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3-5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m at ENE to 1.8m at WSW) surrounded by a fosse (Wth of top 6-7m; Wth of base 1-3m; ext. D 0.6-0.7m), and a slight external bank (Wth of base 2-3m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) ESE-W. The fosse is reduced to a berm, and the counterscarp bank is absent W-N. The entrance (Wth of base 1.45m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.6m; H 0.2-04m) and a gap in the outer bank (Wth 8.2m) are at WSW (max. ext. diam. 52m ENE-WSW).
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: 1 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.