Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Newtown (Kells Lower By., Kilmainham ED), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Kells Lower By., Kilmainham ED)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84523, -6.84846
- SMR number
- ME005-108----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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 in a fold between hills c. 350m to the W and c. 630m to the ENE with an arc of higher ground connecting the hills c. 200m to the S. A small copse (diam. c. 30m) c. 200m SSW of Newtown House is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map together with other similar features. It is the only such feature in the vicinity surviving on the 1908 6-inch map where it is represented as a hachured feature, and it is still extant, but it is probably an ornamental tree-ring.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.