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Ring-ditch

Dardistown (Duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Dardistown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dardistown (Duleek Upper By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.66919, -6.31177
SMR number
ME027-133001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the crest of the S-facing slope of a low ENE-WSW ridge. The cropmarks of two small features are visible on a digital image captured with a drone-mounted camera by Colin Byrne on 22/07/2021. This is a circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a single fosse with the ring-ditch (ME027-133002-) c. 10m to the E. The two features are also faintly visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021).

See the attached aerial view from the N, courtesy of Colin Byrne

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 October 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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