Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gilltown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gilltown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68322, -6.48360
- SMR number
- ME026-022----
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
Situated at the crest of a steep N-facing slope down to the W-E River Boyne at Brú na Bóinne, with the river c. 330m to the N. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a single fosse feature (int. diam. c. 45m; ext. diam. c. 60m) is visible on an OSI aerial image (OS8, 1863). It was first identified by Tom Condit in 2013.
See the attached aerial image courtesy of Oliver and Noel Murphy, taken in July 2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.