Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
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
- 53.70431, -6.45023
- SMR number
- ME020-016005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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 (ME020-016004-) and a hollow way or sunken road (Wth c. 2m; D 0.3m) defined by low banks (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.3m) that runs NW-SE (L c. 150m) just to the NE of the passage tomb. It runs between the passage tomb and the ring-ditch, indicating that the latter was probably an extant barrow when it was in use, and it leads directly to the medieval parish church of Dowth (ME020-019----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 10 September 2018
References
Davis, S. 2018 Secrets from the Snow. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 32, No. 3, 24-5.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.