Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (kells Lower By., Newtown Ed), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (kells Lower By., Newtown Ed)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77063, -6.84105
- SMR number
- ME011-054----
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 a rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (02/07/2018). It is cut by the cropmark of a WNW-ESE field drain towards the S edge. The enclosure is also faintly visible on MapGenie Imagery (2013-18), and it was first reported by M. Tunney.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (02/07/2018)
compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.