Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clontail, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clontail
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80095, -6.67683
- SMR number
- ME012-054----
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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 rise on the E-facing slope of a low N-S ridge. A magnetic gradiometer survey (19R0077) conducted by J. Nicholls on behalf of Meath County Council identified a circular area (int. diam. c. 30m N-S) defined by a fosse-like feature that that has an entrance gap (Wth c. 2m) at NE and is possibly truncated by a N-S field bank at W (Nicholls 2019, 12). Archaeological testing (19E0565) confirmed the presence of a silted fosse (Wth of top 1.4-2.1m) at three points. It was filled with a dark brown soil that has charcoal flecks but was not excavated. A cross-shaped anomaly outside the enclosure to the E was a pit (dims 2.8m x 1.1m plus) filled with a dark brown silty clay with bone fragments, and a piece of iron slag was recovered from its surface. (Moore 2019, 20-27)
See the attached plan from Moore (2019, Fig. 12)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 February 2021
References
Nicholls, J. 2019 Geophysical Survey Report. N52 Grange to Clontail Scheme, County Meath. Detection Licence: 19R0077 Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics
Moore, D. 2019 Report on the results of Archaeological Testing of Area 5 (Castletown), Area 15 (Fringestown) and Area 20 (Clontail) along the Proposed N52 Realignment, Grange to Clontail, County Meath. Excavation Licence: 19E0565; Detection Licence: 19R0198 Unpublished report, Moore Group
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.