Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ráth Chairn, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ráth Chairn
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61021, -6.85908
- SMR number
- ME030-008----
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
Situated on the gentle S-facing slope of a broad low hill. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) is depicted faintly on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, and it is represented as a hachured D-shaped feature backing onto an E-W field bank at N on the 1912 edition. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 32m E-W; c. 26m N-S) defined by a slight scarp most visible E-S (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) but it is truncated by an E-W road bank at N and a N-S field bank at W.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 17 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.