Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Corstown (slane Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corstown (slane Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87362, -6.61879
- SMR number
- ME003-029----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight NE-SW rise in a low-lying area with the canalised N-S Gara River c. 70m to the W. Two parallel ditches (Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.7-0.9m) separated by a berm (Wth 4m) run NW-SE across the rise with earthen banks (Wth 2.5-3m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) on the outer sides (L 26m). At the N end the features stop 5m short of an E-W ditch (Wth of base 1m; D at S 0.5m; D at N 0.7m) with a bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. H 0.7m) on the N side (L c. 30m). The double ditches with outer banks could be a section of roadway, but spoil from land clearance was deposited on the area.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 August, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.