Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Bective, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bective
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58726, -6.71702
- SMR number
- ME031-072008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 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
A complex of crop-marks comprising at least two enclosures (ME031-072001-; ME031-072002-) and seven ring-ditches (ME031-072003-; ME031-072004-; ME031-072005-; ME031-072006-; ME031-072007-; ME031-072008-; ME031-072009-) are visible on an aerial photograph. This ring-ditch is c. 9.4m in diameter (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 14 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.