Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Platin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Platin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69018, -6.36753
- SMR number
- ME020-014----
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
The following 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.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Situated on top of rock outcrop and covering area of c. two acres. Banks and scarps define top of outcrop, and within this oval area is raised subcircular area (diam. c. 25m) and raised triangular area (dims. 29m E-W, 15m N-S).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.