Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockglass, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockglass
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76082, -6.87038
- SMR number
- ME011-030----
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 on a slight rise on top of a broad hill. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 28m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at NW: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m; at SE: Wth of base 6.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) reduced to a low scarp NW-NNE, but the perimeter is absent NNE-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (ME011-029001-) is c. 90m to the NW and rath (ME011-031----) is c. 85m to the SE while fulacht fia (MEW011-032----) is c. 75m to the SSE.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.