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
- 53.69512, -6.25658
- SMR number
- ME021-031----
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 1799 "Ireland." (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 circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a fosse feature S-W-NE is visible on Google Earth (06/06/2018). There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at N and the fosse extends NNE (visible L c. 20m) from the W side of this gap. An outer fosse, separated from the inner SW-N by the lighter colouring of the crop on the site of an earthen bank, is also present. 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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.