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Danestown Fort

archaeological site in Republic of Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ24196506 ↗
Source-derived summary

Danestown Fort is a ringfort (rath) and protected national monument in County Meath, Ireland. It is located approximately 700 metres (770 yd) southeast of Kentstown and on the south bank of the Nanny River, a Boyne tributary. It is a rath with an inner platform over 4 metres (13 ft) high, surrounded by a fosse (ditch) and an outer bank.

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“Danestown Fort” enters the record as archaeological site in Republic of Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Danestown, Fort and archaeological can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Danestown, Fort and archaeological.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24196506. Authority coordinates are 53.624, -6.523. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Danestown Fort” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.