Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Iffernock, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iffernock
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54431, -6.75977
- SMR number
- ME036-065----
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 fairly level landscape. Aerial photograph (GB89.E.18) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two widely spaced concentric fosses (int. diam. c. 35m; ext. diam. c. 65m), probably a rath.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Amended: 8 July, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.