Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymahon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymahon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49055, -6.94215
- SMR number
- ME041-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a level landscape on the plain of the Rive Boyne, with a NW-SE section of the river c. 180m to the NE. A circular area (int. diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a fosse feature (Wth c. 1-3m) with an entrance break (Wth c. 4) at ENE is visible on Bing images (c. 2013). It was first identified by Katherine McCormack, and at the centre there is a triangular pit feature (dims c. 7m x c. 5m). It is also visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018) where an entrance gap at NE is also visible.
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 July, 2016
Amended: 18 July, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.