Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Athlumney, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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
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 Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.