Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kildangan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildangan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40289, -7.11114
- SMR number
- ME046-015----
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 in a rise in a gently undulating landscape with a small canalised N-S stream c. 40m to the E and turning SW to run c. 50m S of the monument. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and an oval hachured feature is represented on the 1912 edition. This is a slightly raised grass and scrub-covered oval platform (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) the S part of which has been quarried. It is probably a rath.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.