Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Baltrasna (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltrasna (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49250, -6.39875
- SMR number
- ME045-045----
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
The cropmark of a small ring-ditch (diam. c . 8m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Bing aerial images (2013). Ring-ditch (ME045-046----) is just to the NE. It was first identified by Tom Condit.
See the attached view from Digital Globe (2013)
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.