Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown (morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (morgallion By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78842, -6.73141
- SMR number
- ME012-013----
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 gentle E-facing slope. This was described in 1968 (SMR file) as a raised grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 48.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 15.5m at SE to 6m at NW; int. H 0.4m at SE to 0.8m at NW; ext. H 1.9m at NW to 2.1m at SE) with some scrub, and an outer fosse (at SE: Wth of top 5.8m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m: at NW: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.9m) S-WNW that is reduced to a slight berm elsewhere. The original entrance could be the oversailing of the bank at S as it approaches from the W that creates a tangential ramp entrance (L 7.5m; Wth of base 1.4m) rising from the E. In the interior a slightly raised circular area (diam. 9.6m E-W; 8.9m E-W; max. H 0.5m) W of the centre could be a hut-site.
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 Moo
Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Amended: 2 August 2022, 15 December 2022
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 11/1970).
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.