Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacoll Little,Caulstown (Dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacoll Little,Caulstown (Dunboyne By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45580, -6.44559
- SMR number
- ME051-022----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a local height in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) is visible on OSI aerial images (1995) and on Google Earth (24/06/2019). It is overlain by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Caulstown to the W and c. a third of the monument is not visible in Caulstown. There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) in the fosse at ESE. It is probably a rath and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 April, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.