Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70445, -6.45013
- SMR number
- ME020-016004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 gentle S-facing slope. Earthworks in the field E of the great Dowth passage tomb (ME020-017----) have been resolved by oblique aerial photography and LiDAR imagery (Davis 2018) into a post-medieval field system (ME020-016001-) at NW, a ring-ditch and a medieval hollow way (ME020-016005-). The ring-ditch is a circular grass-covered feature (diam. 11.5m) defined by a low bank overlaid by NE-SW lazy beds.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 September, 2018
Davis, S. 2018 Secretes from the Snow. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 32, No. 3, 24-5.
Nearby in the register
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.