Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Finlaghtown Great, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finlaghtown Great
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55568, -6.73511
- SMR number
- ME037-052002-
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 the S-facing slope of a slight E-W spur, and c. 30m S of the cutting for the defunct KIilmessan to Athboy railway spur. The cropmarks of three small enclosures in a WNW-ESE line are visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). This central feature (diam. c. 6m) is defined by a single fosse feature. There are ring-ditches c. 8m to the WNW and c. 6m to the ESE. They are also faintly visible on OSI images (1995), and were first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.