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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73170, -7.11864
- SMR number
- ME015-122----
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 an undulating landscape at the S foot of the Lough Crew ridge. A circular or D-shaped grass-covered feature (dims c. 45m NNE-SSW; c. 35m WNW-ESE) feature with the straight edge at E is visible on Digital Map (c. 2013), what might be an outer fosse SW-N. It is also visible on OSI images (c. 2018) and on Google Earth (05/10/2009; 12/07/2013; 24/03/2017; 16/03/21). It was first reported by Liam Kenny.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June 2019
Revised: 03 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.