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Enclosure - large enclosure

Heronstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Heronstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Heronstown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.76777, -6.61474
SMR number
ME012-058----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape, with small old lake beds just to the E (diam. c. 270m) and N (diam. c. 150m). The location is within a curve of the N foothills of the ENE-WSW Slieve Breagh ridge E-S-W. The cropmark or soilmark of a large enclosure that appears to have numerous wide enclosing banks is visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and Google Earth (07/05/2017; 16/05/2018; 14/05/2020; 04/03/2022). It appears to consist of a platform (diam. c. 30m) separated by a fosse (Wth c. 10m) from an earthen bank (Wth c. 20m) that is surrounded by an outer fosse (Wth c. 15m) and possibly a second outer bank (Wth c. 15-20m). An entrance through the banks and fosses cannot be detected (max. ext. diam. c. 150m). It may be a large barrow and it was first reported by Rob O’Hara.

See the attached images from _01 Digital Globe (2011-13), _02 Google Earth (07/05/2017); _03 MapGenie 2005-13; _05 Google Earth (04/03/2022)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 May 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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