Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baltrasna (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltrasna (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73498, -7.20508
- SMR number
- ME014-012----
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 rise in an undulating landscape with slightly higher ground to the ENE. This is a subcircular to subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 29m E-W; 24.5m N-S) with rounded corners that slopes down to the E (H 1m). It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-W and a scarp (at E: Wth 2m; H 1.5m) elsewhere with some trees on the perimeter. There are gaps in the perimeter at N (Wth of base 4) and SW (Wth 3m), but the original entrance is not identified. Earthwork (ME014-013----) is c. 50m to the ENE.
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 revision: 21 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.