Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54706, -6.73825
- SMR number
- ME037-063----
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
Located on a rise in a fairly level landscape with the E-W Boycetown River c. 35m to the S. The parch-mark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 9m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It is also visible on OS images (1995), and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 September, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Stableunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.