Enclosure in Grangegeeth — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

That is a large rath, now a field bank. It stood at the west end of a short ridge in Grangegeeth, wide enough to hold a village or a fortress, but ploughing and pasture have reduced most of it to memory. The surviving chord marks the shape of what was lost, reminding us that human hands built and held this place before it became ordinary ground.

Located at the W end of a short E-W ridge (L c. 200m). A large embanked subcircular enclosure (ext. dims c. 70m N-S; c. 60m E-W) is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as a ‘Fort’, but only a slight curve in a field bank at N is represented on the 1908 edition. A chord (L 35m) of the bank survives incorporated into a field bank (Wth of base 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) at N but this would have been a substantial rath. 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/revision: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022

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