Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Glascarn, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glascarn
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48333, -6.44661
- SMR number
- ME045-013----
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 on a fairly level landscape with a small W-E stream c. 100m to the N. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse is visible on an oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVF 041) from 1968. It is also visible on OSIAP (2005) and Google Earth (24/06/2018). (Feeley 2001, 45-6, No. 35)
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (24/06/2018)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 18 September 2017
Amended: 17 December 2021
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Feeley, E. 2001 A survey of archaeological remains OS sheet 45 – Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 12, 27-66.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.