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Ringfort - rath

Gormanstown (Navan Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gormanstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gormanstown (Navan Upper By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.57464, -6.86775
SMR number
ME030-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · 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 low-lying landscape with the NNW-SSE Athboy River, also called the Tremblestown River, c. 250m to the WSW. The cropmark of a complex trivallate circular enclosure is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). A circular area (diam. c. 25m) is defined by a slight fosse feature that is absent S-W. This is within a subcircular area (dims c. 57m N-S; c. 47m E-W) defined by another fosse with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE. This is within third subcircular enclosure (dims c. 77m N-S; 65m E-W) defined by a fosse, which also has an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE but the fosse is very faint W-N-NE. The outermost fosse is depicted as a field boundary on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map S-W. A D-shaped annexe (dims c. 32m N-S; c. 20m E-W) is attached to the outer fosse at ENE, and some small paddocks are just to the SE. It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillere.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 7 June 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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