Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Footstown Great, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Footstown Great
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80343, -6.62743
- SMR number
- ME012-009----
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 towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a hill. No feature is depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but a rectangular area is clearly visible on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 683, 682) from the 1970s and also on OSI images from 1995 and 2005 and on Google Earth (04/05/2019). This is a slightly raised rectangular area (dims 16m NW-SW; 14m NE-SW) defined by low earthen banks (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) and external fosses or ditches (Wth of top 2.5m; ext. D 0.2-0.3m). There is no visible entrance, and it is probably a small tree plantation.
See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Amended: 2 August 2022
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.