Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Beaumont (Duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beaumont (Duleek Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66521, -6.35383
- SMR number
- ME027-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located just off the crest of the N-facing slope down to the WSW-ENE Nanny River which is c. 80m to the N. An OSI aerial photograph (1995) shows a cirular cropmark (Colin Byrne pers. Com 2008). The cropmarks of two circular features are visible on a digital image captured with a drone-mounted camera by Colin Byrne on 24/07/2021. This is a circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a single fosse. The ring-ditch (ME027-060001-) is c. 30m to the W, and the features are also faintly visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021).
See the attached aerial view courtesy of Colin Byrne
Comiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upoad: 13 Octobwer 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.