Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shancarnan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancarnan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80001, -6.90735
- SMR number
- ME010-047----
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
Located on a S-facing slope. What is probably a low earthwork enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m) is most clearly visible as a vegetation mark in pasture defined by a fosse (Wth c. 3-7m) on Google Earth (02/07/2018). It is also visible as a low earthwork platform separated by a fosse from a wide outer bank on LiDAR imagery from the Open Topographic Viewer. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (02/07/2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.