Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Kilmainham (headford), County Meath, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.