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Ringfort - rath

Knockstown (Deece Lower By., Trubley Par.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockstown (Deece Lower By., Trubley Par.), 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
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----

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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 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

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

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