Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Gormanston, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanston
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64278, -6.24721
- SMR number
- ME028-086002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 fairly level landscape. The cropmark of two adjacent ring-ditches are visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This E ring-ditch is a circular area (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 2m) that is absent W-N. The ring-ditch (ME028-086001-) is c. 4m to the NW, and both features were first reported by Mathew Mullen-Reynolds.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 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.