Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Moathill, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moathill
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65251, -6.70143
- SMR number
- ME025-083002-
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
A number of intercutting NE-SW ditches extend up the slope for Site 3 to Site 2 and turn NW at the summit of the col between the ring-ditch (ME025-083----) to the W and the motte (ME025-023001-) to the E. In places there are up to five cuts of this feature and it is unconnected with the major NNE-SSW boundary ditch (ME025-082----), although closely contemporary. Samples from earlier and later iterations of this ditch at the base of the slope in Site 3 provide C14 dates of 570-649 cal. AD (UBA-9921) and 666-782 cal. AD (UBA-9920) respectively. Lighter NW-SE features that stop short of the major drains are furrows and it is possible that that these boundaries were in use for a long period. (Halliday 2009, 46-58)
See the attached plan from Halliday (2009, fig. 25)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 April, 2023
Halliday, S. 2009 Navan Inner Relief Road Scheme, Sites 2 & 3. Licence: 06E0024. Final Excavation Report, Unpublished, Arch Tech
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.