Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Drakestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drakestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rahards Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.77376, -6.72334
- SMR number
- ME012-027----
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 SE summit of what was a small NW-SE ridge (L c. 150m) but this end of the hill has been quarried and is now a grass-covered hollow on a gentle SE-facing slope. An embanked earthwork enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) annotated as a ‘Fort’ is depicted at the S end of a small NW-SE ridge on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it is annotated as ‘Rahards Fort’ on the 1908 edition. Although this monument has been quarried some of the perimeter might survive around the edge covered in spoil.
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 upload: 10 July 2007
Amended: 2 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.