Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Smithstown (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smithstown (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67183, -6.28934
- SMR number
- ME028-103----
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 top of a small N-S spur overlooking the W-E valley of the meandering River Nanny with the stream c. 200m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 23m; ext. diam. c. 38m N-S; c. 34m E-W) defined by two fosses was recorded on a digital image captured with a drone-mounted camera by Colin Byrne on 22/07/2021. It is also visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021), and the souterrain complex (ME028-022----) was just to the NW.
See the attached aerial veiw courtesy of Colin Byrne
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.