Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygarth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66412, -6.26819
- SMR number
- ME028-102----
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 in a small SW-NE fold in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular or D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 45m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse and with the straight side at SE is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). The fosse at SE is the slightest and there may be a wide gap (Wth c. 15m) here. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy, and was also recorded on a digital image captured with a drone-mounted camera by Colin Byrne on 21/07/2021.
See the attached oblique view courtesy of Colin Byrne
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.