Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dreminstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dreminstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75248, -6.63449
- SMR number
- ME012-043----
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 at the crest of a steep slope down SE-W. This is not depicted on any map although there is a curve in the field bank W-NE depicted on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 732-5) from the 1970s and on more recent imagery like Google Earth (12/11/2005, 19/03/2015, 16/05/2018, 14/05/2020). This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 60m E-W; 54.5m) defined by a field bank and drain W-N and by a silted fosse (Wth of top c. 4m; max. D 0.3m) elsewhere. An entrance is not identified.
See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth _1 (16/05/2018), _2 (19/03/2015)
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.