Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garistown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garistown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69128, -6.91147
- SMR number
- ME016-048----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. This is a raised and grass-covered subcircular area (dims 55.5m N-S; 46.4m E-W) defined by an overgrown fosse (at ENE: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; int. D 1.3m; ext. D 0.9m;) which is best preserved S-W (at SW: Wth of top 10m; int. D 2m; int. D 2.5m; ext. D 1.8m) but which has been removed by farm buildings NW-N. There is a causeway (Wth of top 5.7m; H 0.5-1m) at E, which is the modern entrance.
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: 26 February 2019
Amended: 3 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.