Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grennanstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grennanstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61969, -6.96616
- SMR number
- ME029-003----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a fairly level landscape. This feature is not marked on any map but aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/1456, 7) from the 1940s and later series clearly show a small embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank N-SE and by what is probably a slight scarp elsewhere.
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.
Date of revised upload: 27 February 2019
References
Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection of the Irish Air Corps
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.