Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Connellstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connellstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43612, -6.86716
- SMR number
- ME048-023----
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 with a small N-S canalised stream c. 10m to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (dims c. 50m N-S; 37m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.6-5.4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1m) with some bushes. There are slight traces of a fosse WSW-WNW and NE-SSE, but an original entrance is not identified. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest with a wide unplanted buffer outside it (OSAP 2012).
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: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.