Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42536, -6.82112
- SMR number
- ME048-043----
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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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AM.31) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 10-15m); one of two ring-ditches in close proximity. Ring-ditch (ME048-044----) is c. 80m to the S. It is not visible on any other aerial images.
Date of upload: 18 September, 2017
Amended 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.