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Ring-ditch

Athlumney, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Athlumney, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Athlumney
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64365, -6.66476
SMR number
ME025-079001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Just outside the N angle of the rectilinear enclosure (ME025-079----) an arc of a ditch (L 15m; Wth 1.5m; D 0.54m) amounting to about a quarter of its total extent was excavated. Its N extent had been destroyed by quarrying but it does not return at the E edge where a narrow pit (L 1.5m; Wth 0.5m; D 0.15m) that could represent its continuation is cut by a later pit so its connection with the arced ditch cannot be established. Its main curve had a single fill of silty clay that contained some animal bones identified as sheep/goat, but no dateable material was recovered. Its location outside the possible entrance to the rectilinear enclosure suggests that they may be contemporary. (McQuade 2007, 14-15)

See the attached plans from Hession (_01, _02) (2009, figs 5, 6) and McQuade (_03) (2007, fig. 5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 31 March 2023

McQuade, M. 2007 Archaeological Monitoring and Excavation, Athlumney, Co. Meath. Licence: 97E0322ext. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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