Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahendrick, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahendrick
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76543, -6.96610
- SMR number
- ME010-025----
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 at the summit of a short and low NE-SW ridge in a fairly level landscape. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) with some trees only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, the perimeter of which is clipped by a NE-SW field bank at SE. It is a slightly raised and grass-covered area (diam. 27m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m), but the perimeter is incorporated into a NW-SE field bank at N and a NE-SW road bank at SE. Archaeological testing (20E0392) by D. Finn on the site of a single house c. 10m to the SE on the other side of a public road produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:781).
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
Amended: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.