Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ballintry, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintry
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44251, -6.42779
- SMR number
- ME051-015001-
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 circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fosse feature which has an entrance gap at NNW is visible on Google Earth images (12-07-2013) and also on Bing images (2013). It was first identified by Tom Condit, and the ring-ditch (ME051-015002-) is c. 25m to the ENE.
See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2013)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 May, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.