Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rudder, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rudder
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62558, -6.34334
- SMR number
- ME033-062001-
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
Located on a gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of a subrectangular area (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a single continuous ditch feature (Wth c. 2-4m) is visible on Bing Images (c. 2013). A subrectangular annexe (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a lighter ditch feature (Wth c. 1m) is attached to the perimeter of the rath at W.
See the attached view from Bing Images:
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 August, 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.