Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
MacEtown (navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacEtown (navan Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62103, -6.70324
- SMR number
- ME031-082----
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 fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There is a wide break (Wth c. 8m) in the perimeter at E, and the interior is cut by the cropmark of an E-W drain (L c. 30m) with drain features extending N from it as far as the rath fosse. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy and also reported by Jean Charles Caillère.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.