Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghwalls, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghwalls
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62243, -6.37081
- SMR number
- ME033-067002-
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
The cropmark of field drains covering an area of about 3 hectares (c. 8 acres) is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The drains create a pattern of small rectangular fields (ME033-067001-) which overlie a subcircular enclosure (int. dims c. 26m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a broad fosse (Wth c. 2m) that can be traced ESE-W-NE, which is probably a rath. There is a large quarry (diam. c. 15m) outside the enclosure but incorporating the fosse SE-S. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.