What is recorded here

Diméin Bhaile Ghib held a fifty-metre earthen ring with a wide outer ditch and a northeast entrance ramp. People lived inside that shallow circle before the land changed, likely tending animals or storing grain near the small stream. The fort vanished without a trace by 1984, erasing the footprints and hearth smoke of whoever called it home. Only a faint cropmark remains on satellite images, proving the ring existed but refusing to reveal whose hands built it.

Located on a fairly level landscape with a small canalised NW-SE stream just to the E. Vertical aerial photographs from c. 1950 (ACAP: V 307/1590) and 1973 (GSIAP: N 268-9) show a raised circular and grass-covered enclosure defined by an earthen bank and a wide outer fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 70m). It was described in 1970 as a raised circular area (diam. c. 50m; H c. 1.5m) surrounded by a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base c. 3.5m; ext. D c. 0.6m) with an entrance ramp at NE, but it had been removed without trace by 1984 (SMR file). The fosse can be seen as a cropmark on Apple Maps and Google Earth images (07/05/2017). See the attached view from the Air Corps photograph (1950s) 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Revised: 24 March 2023 ACAP – Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel, Co. Dublin GSIAP – Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey, Beggars Bush, Haddington Rd., Dublin 4.

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