Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Robertstown (kells Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robertstown (kells Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79661, -6.80427
- SMR number
- ME011-010----
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 in a low-lying position in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two fosse features (max. ext. diam. c. 40m) with an entrance gap at E in the outer fosse is visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVG, 97). It is also visible on OSI images (2017).
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: 9 April 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.