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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72716, -7.21943
- SMR number
- ME014-017----
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. It is depicted as a hachured enclosure (ext. dims c. 65m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) only on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is known locally as a ‘fort’ but had been removed c. 1969. It was still discernible as a subcircular area (dims c. 54m NE-SW; c. 44m NW-SE) defined by a soil change. It had been completely quarried away by 1995 (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 14 August 2015
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.