Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcrew
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72079, -7.12750
- SMR number
- ME015-043----
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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 in deciduous woodland at the crest of the S-facing slope of the NNW-SSE Carrigawaddy ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area defined by an earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer bank which does not survive NE-SE. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 1.8m) bank and a causeway (Wth of top 3.2m; H 0.4m) across the fosse are at E. There is a possible hut-site just N of the centre of the rath visible as a circular area (int. diam. 6m NNW-SSE; 5.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 2m; max. H 0.4m), which has a likely entrance (Wth of base 1m) at ESE.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.