Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocklough, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklough
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71663, -7.13501
- SMR number
- ME015-061----
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
Located towards the top of a S-facing slope. This is a subcircular and slightly domed grass-covered area (dims 31m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp (at ENE: Wth 4m; H 1.6m) SSW-W-ENE with slight traces of an outer fosse, but the perimeter melds into the ground level elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified, but there area old grass-covered quarry holes on the perimeter at ENE and S.
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: 9 January 2019
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.