Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Blackcastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackcastle Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66973, -6.65719
- SMR number
- ME025-075----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the E edge of a plateau that slopes down gently from the W and at the crest of a steep slope down to a S-N section of the River Boyne, which is c. 125m to the E and c. 15m lower. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 13m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) with an entrance (Wth c. 2m) at SW is visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during July 2018. Enclosure (ME025-074----) is c. 100m to the W and the flat cemetery (ME025-048----) is in the vicinity. It was first reported by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
See the attached view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.