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Ring-ditch

Laracor, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Laracor, 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
Laracor
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52723, -6.78128
SMR number
ME036-043002-

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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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 top of a slight ridge and just SE of rath (ME036-043001-). Evidence of a possible a double ring-ditch was recovered in test excavation (04E0987) in the form of two arcs of fosses, the inner curved fosse (L 6m; Wth 1.75m; D 0.3m) separated by c. 3-4m from an outer curved fosse (L 7m; Wth 1m; D 0.2m) that had two inhumations on its line that were oriented N-S. (Breen 2007, 2010, 14-16, 44)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 November, 2017

References

Breen 2007 Site 3, Laracor: Mound with enclosing ditches, medieval and post-medieval metalworking site, fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: Summary descriptions of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 324-5, No. 1280. Dublin, Wordwell

Breen, T. 2010 R158 Re-alignment Laracor. Archaeological excavation, Final Report. Licence No. 04 E0987 Vol. 1. Site 3, Laracor Townland and Sites M1, M2, M4 & M5. Unpublished report, Vlaerie J. Keeley

Nearby in the register

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

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