Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farranadoony, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranadoony
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79104, -6.91992
- SMR number
- ME010-005----
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
Located on a rise towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. This was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a circular overgrown area (diam. 25.5m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) at S but largely by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 1m; ext. D 0.2m), except where the perimeter had been removed SW-NW. The ramp entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) was at NE. The visible monument had been removed by 2000 (OSAP).
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: 22 February 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.