Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Springhall, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Springhall
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73346, -7.18171
- SMR number
- ME015-020----
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 the SW-facing slope of a hillock in a fairly low-lying landscape. It was described in 1969 (SMR file) as an oval or subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 35m NNW-SSE; 26.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5-4m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.9m at S to 1.4m at N) with some bushes and slight traces of an outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. SD 0.1m). The entrance (Wth of base 2.4m) was at S. Visible evidence of the monument had been removed by 1995 (OSAP).
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.