Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monktown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monktown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62963, -6.57149
- SMR number
- ME032-106----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on fairly level ground at the bottom of a SE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 20m; ext. diam. c. 50m) defined by a negative cropmark on the site of an earthen bank (Wth c. 5-8m) and the positive cropmark of an external fosse (Wth c. 6m) is most clearly visible on Google Earth (21/04/2019). It has no visible entrance but the enclosure is also visible on Google Earth (14/05/2020; March 2022) and is faintly visible on Apple Maps. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced views from Google Earth _1 (21/04/2019), _2 (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.