Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Deenes, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deenes
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63049, -6.43259
- SMR number
- ME027-108008-
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 slightly undulating landscape with, with a W-E section of the Nanny River on the S side of a collection of barrows and enclosures but the river turns NNE to the E of the area. From 2016 Noel Meehan has been recording cropmark enclosures in the Keenoge area on a drone-mounted camera, and he has identified this concentration of barrows and enclosures in Deenes townland. This ring-ditch is defined by a single fosse feature (int. diam. c. 5m) which might have a central pit defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 2-4m).
See the attached aerial view taken from the NE, courtesy of Noel Meehan
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 15 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.