Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killegland, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegland
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50695, -6.40473
- SMR number
- ME045-004002-
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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 slight rise in a level landscape, with the fold of a small S-N steam just to the E, and the stream itself is c. 20m distant. Although the parish church of Killegland (ME045-004----) is not marked on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6" map the enclosure is described in italic lettering as a 'Grave Yard' and in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. Inside the perimeter of the graveyard (ME045-004001-) is a rath, identifiable as a subcircular area (dims 39m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) that is most intact NW-NE and ESE-SW. No fosse or entrance can be identified.A souterrain (ME045-004002-) that probably relates to the use of the rath was recorded in 1982.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 April,, 2015
Amended: 22 December 021
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.