Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cortown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cortown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68653, -6.86069
- SMR number
- ME024-001005-
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
Located towards the top of a slight NE-facing slope. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.2m WNW-ESE; 20.6m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (H 1.3m at WNW to 2.1m at ESE) SW-N-SE that is truncated at S by the N edge of Cortown graveyard (ME024-001001-). There is no visible fosse or entrance, and the scarp incorporates a mound (ME024-001006-) on the N side (max. ext. dim. 51.3m WNW-ESE). It is within the ecclesiastical enclosure (ME024-001004-) of the early church of St. Boithín and the parish church of Balrathboyne (ME024-001----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 June, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.