Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Bective, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bective
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59133, -6.72191
- SMR number
- ME031-080001-
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
Situated on a slight rise in a level, low-lying landscape. A small circular feature (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single continuous fosse feature is visible on Google Earth image (14/07/2018) in the interior of enclosure (ME031-081----) a little SW of the centre. It was first reported by Ciaran McDonnell, and the features are also visible on Google Earth (12/07/201) and OSI images (2018).
See the attached view from Google Earth (14/07/2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 March, 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.