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Ringfort - rath

Ardmulchan, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardmulchan, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardmulchan
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.68219, -6.60678
SMR number
ME025-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape and at the crest of a fairly gentle slope down to a SW-NE section of the River Boyne that is c. 200m distant. There is a quarry face (H c. 10m) immediately to the NE. This was described in 1969 (SMR file) as an oval grass and scrub-covered platform (dims of top 38m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp (at WSW: Wth 8m; H 1.3m; at ENE: Wth 6m; H 2m) with a berm (at WSW: Wth 2m; at ENE: Wth 6.5m) at its base defined by a scarp (at WSW: Wth 3m; H 0.6m; at ENE: Wth 3.5m; H 1.7m) that melds into the natural slope. There is a possible entrance (Wth 3.5m) at ESE.

The above 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.

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1957) and is in state guardianship, No. 496.

Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 29 March 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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