Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynadrimna, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynadrimna
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57103, -6.97843
- SMR number
- ME035-002----
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
Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. It is depicted as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) described as a ‘Fort’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curving field bank W-NE on the 1912 edition. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 35.5m E-W; c. 31.5m N-S) sloping down to the SE (H 1.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.5m) with some trees N-NE reduced to a scarp W-N and cut by a NW-SE field bank at NE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 5 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.