Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Braystown (Slane Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Braystown (Slane Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73252, -6.60573
- SMR number
- ME018-044001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) with an entrance gap (Wth c. 4) at S was recorded by Justin Kenny using a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. The ring-ditch (ME018-044002-) is c. 15m to the NE and rath (ME018-043----) is c. 100m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 March, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.