Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Damselstown,greenanstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Damselstown,greenanstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61822, -6.32414
- SMR number
- ME033-070----
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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 the summit of a hill. The parch mark of three slight fosses (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 85m) can be seen on Apple Maps dating from the summer of 2018 on the NE side of a NW-SE roadway. The outer two fosses (Wth c. 1-3m) are concentric and are placed c. 5m apart but the innermost is displaced slightly to the NW. The features are not visible SW of the road but they are visible on OSI images (1995) where a fourth outer fosse is visible NW-N. The monument is difficult to classify but in its siting and morphology it most resembles the visible monument at Tlachta (ME030-001----). It was first reported by Ian Lennon.
See the attached views:
from Apple Maps (2018) _1
from OSAP (1995) _3
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.