Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Demailestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demailestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Demailestown Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Demailestown Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.72210, -6.69510
- SMR number
- ME018-019----
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 on top of a short WNW-ESE ridge (L c. 450m). This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 41m WNW-ESE; 31.5m NNE-SSW) defined by earthen banks (at SW: Wth of base 11m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m; at NE: Wth of base 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) which can be distinguished from wide outer moats (at SW: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 4m; int. D 1.3m; ext. D 0.9m; at NE: Wth of top 5.5m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 1m) on each side, with field banks outside the moats at S and W. There is no internal bank on the W side and there is an entrance gap and traces of a causeway towards the S end of the E side. Old grass-covered trenches and spoil mounds are inside the banks at E 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 upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 24 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.