Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Piercetown (deece Upper), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercetown (deece Upper)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43572, -6.67922
- SMR number
- ME049-029----
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. The cropmark of a subcircular area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a single wide fosse feature (Wth c. 3-4m) is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018). No entrance is visible and the fosse is incorporated in a relict NNE-SSW field drain visible as a cropmark. It was first reported by Edward O’Regan.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.