Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockstown (deece Lower By., Trubley Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockstown (deece Lower By., Trubley Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56181, -6.69764
- SMR number
- ME037-053----
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. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at E is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). This is visible as a scrub-covered feature on photographs of the Geological Survey of Ireland from the 1970s (GSIAP: N 392, 393), and is visible as a cropmark on OSI images (2005; 2012). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached view from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.