Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killegland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50597, -6.41073
- SMR number
- ME045-003----
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. 50-55m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on an oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AID054) from 1963. It is also partially visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995, 2005) and Bing images (c. 2011-13), where arcs of the fosse feature are visible NE-SE and WSW-NW, probably where it is crossing a slight ridge. It is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). (Feeley 2001, 52, No. 45)
See the attached view from Google Earth (12/07/23013)
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Amended: 11 August, 2014, 13 December 2021
References
Feeley, E. 2001 A survey of archaeological remains OS sheet 45 – Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 12, 27-66.
Moore, M. 1987 Archaeological inventory of county Meath. Dublin. Stationery Office.
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.