Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hurcle, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hurcle
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75466, -6.45391
- SMR number
- ME013-067001-
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 hillock in the valley of a meandering NE-SW section of the Mattock River which is c. 100m to the SE at the closest point. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 2m) with an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at ESE is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. Enclosure (ME013-066002-) is c. 2m to the SE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.