Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardgreagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgreagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58357, -6.77155
- SMR number
- ME030-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance at E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Anthony Murphy and it was also reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth (14/07/2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 May 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.