Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Bellewstown (Duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellewstown (Duleek Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64252, -6.37913
- SMR number
- ME027-134002-
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the crest of a W and N-facing slope at the W end of the ENE-WSW Bellewstown ridge. 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 small circular area (diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fosse. The ring-ditch (ME027-134001-) is c. 15m to the W, and both features are also faintly visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021).
See the attached aerial view from the E, courtesy of Colin Byrne
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.