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
- 53.65276, -6.35934
- SMR number
- ME027-124002-
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 a rise on a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 10m) is visible on Digital Globe images (c. 2013). The cropmark is also visible on vertical photographs from the 1970s (GSIAP: O 306) and is also depicted as a small tree clump on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Ring-ditch (ME027-124001-) is c. 130m to the WSW and the features were first reported by Ken Williams.
See the attached enhanced image (top) from Digital Globe
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 25 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.