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Ringfort - rath

Clontail, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clontail, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Detection Licence: 19R0077 Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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