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Ring-ditch

Tlachta, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Tlachta, 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
Tlachta
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62885, -6.88812
SMR number
ME030-038001-

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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)
  • 1869 · 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 a SE-NW spur on the N side of the Hill of Ward, or Tlachta. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on OSI aerial images (1995), but not on other aerial images. A remote sensing survey (12R0057) confirmed this feature (TLN2) and identified an entrance gap at S (Davis 2017, 6). The survey also recovered evidence of a field system (ME030-038-----) in the vicinity, but the fields cannot be connected directly with this enclosure.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 21 April, 2017

References

Davis, S. 2017 Hill of Ward, Tlachtga, Athboy. Geophysical survey report (Interim). Licence numbers: 12R0057, 12R0058, 12R0059 and 12R0055. Unpublished report, UCD School of Archaeology

Nearby in the register

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

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