Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Donaghmore (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49584, -6.37348
- SMR number
- ME045-050----
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 tip of a low W-E spur with the valley of a small SW-NE tributary of the W-E Broad Meadow River just to the S, and the stream is c. 140m to the SE. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 12m) defined by a single continuous fosse feature is visible on Bing images (c. 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (July 2013). It was first reported by T. Condit.
See the attached view from Digital Globe (2013)
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Amended: 21 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.