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Ring-ditch

Castlefarm, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Castlefarm, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castlefarm
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.41696, -6.47696
SMR number
ME050-021008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape, with the WNW-ESE Castle River c. 100m to the N. Further work in monitoring (04E1040) a sewer pipe extending E from the medieval ring-work castle (ME050-021007-) identified a ring-ditch in the N part of its interior. It was c. 4m from the N edge of the medieval enclosure fosse and may have been preserved by being under its bank. It is a circular area (int. diam. c. 6m) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.05m; max. D 0.96m) that had been removed by medieval activity at N, and it was fully excavated (excavations.ie 2005: 1175). The fosse was filled with fairly sterile orange to grey and brown clays and silts. The remains of a compacted cordoned urn was in the ditch at E and sherds of pottery were found in other parts of the ditch, but there was no evidence of any internal features. (Cotter 2008, 289-90)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 29 October 2021

References

Cotter, C. 2008 1175. Dunboyne Castle, Castlefarm, Dunboyne. Bronze Age ringditch; possible early medieval activity and medieval enclosure. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 289-91, Dublin, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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