Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Newcastle (Fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (Fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78311, -7.12801
- SMR number
- ME009-085----
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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
Located just SE of the summit of a broad, low hill. This is a broad oval cairn (dims 18.4m NNW-SSE; 13.7m ENE-WSW; max. H 0.95m) of fairly small stones, the base of which is grass-covered but much of its surface is obscured by field stones. The cist (ME09-016----) was recovered c. 100m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.