Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Emlagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emlagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75192, -6.80722
- SMR number
- ME011-039002-
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 on the S side of what was once an island in Emlagh bog. The site of the early monastery of Emlagh is within a subrectangular graveyard (ME011-039001-). About 60m from this enclosure and at base of knoll on which it is situated is slight scarp or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 0.2-0.4m) N-E-S, which may form part of an ecclesiastical enclosure.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 July, 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.