Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moylagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moylagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72357, -7.19854
- SMR number
- ME014-019----
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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)
- 1869 · 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 local rise in an undulating landscape. This is a raise and circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m WNW-ESE; 31m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (at SW: Wth 3m; H 1.5m; at NE: Wth 7.5m; H 3.1m) that is incorporated into a road boundary E-SE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. It was damaged in road-widening in 1979 when much of the E half was removed.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.