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
- 53.50230, -6.40058
- SMR number
- ME045-067----
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 rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on OSI aerial images (2005). It is also partly visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018), and it was first reported by Steven McGlade.
See the attached enhanced view from OSI images (2005)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.