Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Mountfortescue, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountfortescue
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76626, -6.57165
- SMR number
- ME013-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of a hillock on a summit of the ENE-WSW Slieve Breagh ridge. The faint and very uncertain parch mark of a double ditched enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 30m), perhaps with a central pit, is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVS 1) from July 1968. It has not appeared on other aerial images.
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
Amended: 3 August 2022
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.