Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ráth Chairn, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ráth Chairn
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62068, -6.87081
- SMR number
- ME030-036----
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 a slight S-facing slope. The perimeter of the large enclosure (ME030-035----), which was identified in a LiDAR survey, expands into what may be a broad, low mound (diam. c. 40m) at S. (Davis 2011, 38-9)
Compiled by Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 21 April 2017
References
Davis, S. 2011 The unseen Hill of Ward: new insights from LiDAR data. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 25, No. 4, 36-40.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.