Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Patrickstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Patrickstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74457, -7.07386
- SMR number
- ME015-120----
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 a knoll of rock outcrop rising from the SW-facing slope of Patrickstown Hill. Grass-covered subcircular area (dims 28m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; ext. D 1m) N-E, on the upslope side and by the steep slopes of the outcrop (H 1m at NW to c. 5m at SW) elsewhere. There is no identifiable entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 May, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.