Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Kilmessan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmessan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56728, -6.66509
- SMR number
- ME037-003002-
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)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape with a S-N meandering stream c. 70m to the E. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c.10m) is visible on aerial images (ME037-003002-_1 to _3) taken in July 2108. The rath (ME037-003001-) is c. 90m to the S.
See the attached view courtesy of Oliver and Noel Murphy
Compiled by: Michael Moore based on details provided by Oliver and Noel Murphy.
Date of upload: 7 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.