Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leggagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leggagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75958, -6.72421
- SMR number
- ME012-030----
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 small hillock in a fairly level landscape. This is a raised grass-covered and circular platform (diam. 51m NNE-SSW; 48.5m WNW-ESE) defined by slight traces of a bank S-SW and NW-NE but mostly by a scarp (H c. 1m generally to 2.4m at SE). There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance, and the monument is skirted by a N-S road bank at W that might have truncated it slightly on this side.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.