What is recorded here
Castleboy Mound is a low earthen ring, twelve metres across and only forty centimetres high, holding a central depression four and a half metres wide. It sits inside a larger ringfort in County Meath, suggesting layered human use rather than a single sudden event. The shallow shape may have marked a boundary, stored something temporary, or simply been a place where people gathered before leaving no named trace behind.
The following 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.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Low earthen mound (diam. 12m, H 0.4m) with depression (diam. 4.5m) in centre. Within ringfort (ME031-033009-). (JRSAI 1978, 54, site H)
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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