Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70271, -6.43601
- SMR number
- ME020-084----
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 an undulating landscape c. 100m NE of the concentric enclosure (ME020-075----). A remote sensing survey (12R0080 ext.) conducted during 2014 recorded the southwest portion of a bivallate enclosure. This consists of at least two ditch circuits that are closely spaced (ext. dims c. 40m NNW-SSE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) and are evident S-NW, with elements of an associated field system to the west and southwest. The ditches are strongly magnetic, indicative of possible burning. The remainder of the enclosure extends beneath an 18th century tree plantation on the NE side. (Ní Lionáin and Davis 2016, 159)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 9 December, 2016
References
Ní Lionáin, C. and S. Davis 2016 Conservation Plan for the Cultural Heritage of the Devenish Lands at Dowth. Unpublished report; National Monuments Service, Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.