Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinlough Big, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlough Big
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73829, -7.04779
- SMR number
- ME015-019----
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 at the N edge of a hillock in the S foothills of the ENE-WSW Slieve na Calliagh ridge. This is a raised circular and grass-covered platform (diam. 32.5m NNE-SSW; 30.5m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (at W: Wth 10m; H 3.1m; at E: Wth 6.5m; H 2m) with some stone facing, and an outer fosse (at WNW: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 4m; ext. D 0.8m) and an outer bank (at WNW: Wth of base 4.7m; ext. H 1.3m) SW-W-NE, but the fosse is visible as a berm (at ENE: Wth 2.5m) NE-SE, and the interior is flush with the ground outside SE-SW. The original entrance is not identified but was probably in the SE-SW area.
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: 8 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.