Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ardmulchan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmulchan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67776, -6.61611
- SMR number
- ME025-064----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the summit of a slight NE-SW ridge (L c. 150m) and c. 70m from the crest of a steep slope down (H c. 30m) to a SW-NE section of the River Boyne which is c. 200m to the NW. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) was recorded by G. Barrett on an oblique aerial photographs (GB89.J.21) in July 1989, but it does not appear on any other series.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Amended: 31 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.