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Ring-ditch

Kilmainham (Headford), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Kilmainham (Headford), County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmainham (Headford)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71880, -6.84958
SMR number
ME017-066002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape, and within the rectangular enclosure (ME017-066001-). The cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single ditch with an entrance (Wth c. 3m) at SE is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. A circular enclosure (ME017-066003-) is c. 10m to the SE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 January 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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