Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Balbrigh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balbrigh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58666, -6.72053
- SMR number
- ME031-071003-
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
A ring-ditch (diam. c. 13.7m) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. Two other ring-ditches (ME031-071001-, ME031-071002-) are visible on the same photograph to the west (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (12/07/2013)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 14 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.