Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Faughanhill, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughanhill
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66803, -6.79953
- SMR number
- ME024-022006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a prominent hill overlooking a fairly level landscape. The hill, known in Old Irish as Ocha, is the traditional burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Morris 1926; Byrne 1973, 77). Geophysical survey was undertaken on the eastern part of the hill in2013 by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project when a large number of features were recorded (Dowling 2015b, 17-20). Three circular features (diam. 10-12m) defined by fosses or palisade trenches can be identified. This ring-ditch is outside the perimeter of enclosure (ME024-022002-) and largely to the N. (Dowling and Cahill Wilson 2014)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2016
References
Byrne, F.J. 1973 (reprint 1983) Irish Kings and High Kings. London. Batsford.
Morris, H. 1926 The battle of Ocha and the burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 56, 29-42.
Dowling, G.2015b Exploring the Hidden Depths of Tara's Hinterland: Geophysical Survey and Landscape Investigations in the Meath – North Dublin Region, eastern Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Available on CJO 2015 doi: 10.1017/ppr.2015.11
Dowling, G. and Cahill Wilson, J. 2014 Tracing the Footprint of our Ancestors. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 38, No. 1, 20-22.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.