Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Liscartan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscartan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66596, -6.72833
- SMR number
- ME025-076----
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
Situated on a slight E-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 10m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) is visible on Apple Maps (2018), with a quarry pit (dims c. 11m x c. 13m) c. 10m to the W. It is not visible on other aerial images, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.