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Ringfort - rath

Ginnets Great, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ginnets Great, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ginnets Great
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52053, -6.73532
SMR number
ME037-048----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise in the curved hollow at the base of the NW-facing slope of a NE-SW section of an esker ridge where it turns NW. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature (diam. c. 30m) with an entrance at SE is visible on aerial photographs (ME037-048_1 to _4). It has an internal fosse that is only visible W-N. The motte (ME037-020----) is overlooking it c. 50m to the SE. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018)

Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Noel and Conor Murphy.

Date of upload: 7 August, 2018
Amended: 21 August 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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