Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bartramstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bartramstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59174, -6.36480
- SMR number
- ME033-022001-
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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 shelf in a low-lying position near the headwaters of the N-S Bartramstown river, with the stream c. 45m to the E. The church (ME033-022----) is in the centre of a raised subcircular area (diam. 33m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.5-1m) ENE-S-SSW that is incorporated into a field bank and hedge elsewhere. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 3m) at E, and there are indications of an outer enclosure in a concentric scarp N-E, c. 60m distant from the church. The enclosure is probably a rath.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 February, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.