Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamona (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72983, -7.11645
- SMR number
- ME015-029----
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 in a slight col in a gently undulating, low-lying landscape with slightly higher ground c. 50m to the ENE and c. 100m to the SSW but with lower ground to the NW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NW-SE; 28m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.7-0.9m) which is incorporated into a relict field bank (Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m) NNW-NE, and a slight outer fosse (at SSW: Wth of base 1.6m; ext. D 0.2m) SSE-NW. The original entrance is not identified.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.