Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballinvally, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75666, -7.11951
- SMR number
- ME009-053----
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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 terrace on a NW-facing slope. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 51m N-S; 51m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank with some large stones and visible facing-stones at W (Wth of base 5-6m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.3-0.9m). The original entrance is not identified, and the interior is crossed by a meandering E-W grass-covered relict field wall (Wth c. 5m; H 0.3-0.5m) that does not survive outside the monument. The perimeter is slightly clipped by a NE-SW field wall at SE. It is probably a cashel.
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
Amended: 15 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.