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
- 53.77916, -7.12407
- SMR number
- ME009-086001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a low-lying landscape. This is a small grass-covered cairn of fairly small stones (diam. 4.3m; H 0.7m) with larger boulders (diam. c. 0.5m) on the perimeter. It is probably a clearance cairn and cairn (ME009-086002-) is c. 70m) to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.