Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Staholmog, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staholmog
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77557, -6.79608
- SMR number
- ME011-024----
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 low rise in an undulating landscape, with Staholmog parish church (ME011-025----) c. 250m to the E. This is a raised and circular but slightly dished grass-covered area (diam. 48m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by an earthen bank S-SW and NW-NNE (Wth of base 10m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) but largely by a scarp (at N: Wth 4m; H 1.5m; at S: Wth 4m; H 3m) with trees and bushes. There is no visible fosse but the ramp entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) is at SE. Modern structures impinge on the base of the scarp SE-SW and a field bank is built at its base SW-NNE, from where a straight NNW-SSE road bank truncates the scarp slightly NNE-E.
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
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone sculpture (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.