Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ministown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ministown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69382, -6.25478
- SMR number
- ME021-013001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a fosse feature E-S-NW is visible on Google Earth (06/06/2018; 27/06/2019). The perimeter is less certain NW-E and no entrance feature is visible. It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013) where three ditch features (int. diam. c. 25m) can be seen, and the W arc of a fosse cuts across the E part of the interior. The holy well (ME021-013----) is at the NE edge of the rath. It was first reported by Tom Condit.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.