Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scottstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scottstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72471, -6.66280
- SMR number
- ME018-055----
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 steep SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 45m) defined by single fosse (Wth c. 3-6m) is visible only on Apple Maps. There are possible gaps in the fosse at SE (Wth c. 10m) and W (Wth c. 8m). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.