Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Hilltown Great, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hilltown Great
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65214, -6.36135
- SMR number
- ME027-124001-
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
Located on an E-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m) defined by a single continuous fosse is visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013) and on Google Earth (12/07/2013). The ring-ditch (ME027-124002-) is c. 130m to the ENE, and the features were first reported by Ken Williams.
See the attached enhanced view (left) from Digital Globe
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.