Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Burtonstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtonstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62475, -6.51022
- SMR number
- ME032-063003-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a hollow in an undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 8m) with a central pit is visible on aerial images (OSAP: 1995). Two other ring-ditches (ME032-063001-; ME032-063002-) are c. 130m to the E, and a fourth (ME032-064004-) is c. 225m to the SE. First identified by Colin Byrne.
Date of upload: 15 September, 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.