Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathkenny, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkenny
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76166, -6.63882
- SMR number
- ME012-036----
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 general SW-facing slope. This was described in 1968 (SMR file) as a large circular grass-covered area (diam. 66m NW-SE; 64.5m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 8.7m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 3.6m), with an external flat-bottomed and water-logged fosse (Wth of base 3.3m ext. D 1.8m) that may have been re-dug E-S-NNW. There is a break in the bank (Wth of base 1.1m) at WSW that is fairly recent and a modernised entrance (Wth of base 9m) at SE while there is an older breach (Wth of base 10m) at SW.
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: 3 August 2022, 15 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.