Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42715, -6.81859
- SMR number
- ME048-041----
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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
Aerial photographs (GB89.AM.31 & 33) show the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m) defined by two concentric fosse features, with an entrance facing east. A third incomplete fosse is visible within the southern side of the enclosure. A second, smaller curvilinear enclosure (ME048-042----) defined by a fosse intersects with this enclosure at S. It does not appear on any other aerial images.
Date of upload: 18 September, 2017
Amended: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.