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
- 53.67895, -6.48572
- SMR number
- ME026-023----
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 slight W-E promontory, with a small WSW-ENE streams c. 70m to the N and a WSW-ENE stream c. 25m to the S that curves around to the E and N to join the N stream. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 55m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on an Ordinance Survey aerial photograph (OS8, 1863). It was first identified by Tom Condit in 2013.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload; 17 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.