Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Greenoge, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenoge
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49037, -6.34340
- SMR number
- ME045-063001-
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise in the valley of the W-E Broad Meadow River with the stream c. 150m to the SW at the nearest point. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 7m) defined by a single narrow fosse is visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018). The ring-ditch (ME045-063002-) is c. 40m to the ENE. Both ring-ditches are also visible on OSI images (2005), and were first reported to the National Monuments Service by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached view from Google Earth (24/06/2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Watchman's hut - burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.