Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Assey, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Assey
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58850, -6.67224
- SMR number
- ME031-074----
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 rise in a gently undulating landscape. A D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google imagery from July 2013. There is an entrance gap at N, and the perimeter seems to abut, but was probably re-cut parallel with, a NNE-SSW ditch feature that was associated with a field bank that is now removed but is marked on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosure was first identified by Tom Condit.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 April, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.