Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Headfort Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headfort Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74009, -6.85483
- SMR number
- ME017-096----
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 on land that was once within Boxhill Wood on the demesne of Headfort House. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse is faintly visible on Google Earth (07/05/2017). It was first reported by Mary Tunney.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (07/05/2017)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.