Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Saddlestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saddlestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61806, -6.31310
- SMR number
- ME033-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight rise in an undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial images (OSAP: 1995, 2005). It was first identified by Colin Byrne.
See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995)
Date of upload; 15 September 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.