Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Corstown (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corstown (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74461, -7.11276
- SMR number
- ME015-012009-
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 the summit of Slieve na Calliagh, c. 5m S of Cairn S and c. 6m W of Cairn T. A circular feature is visible on Digital Globe images (c. 2013) and Apple Maps. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 4.4-4.8m) defined by the low grass and moss-covered stones of a wall that are barely perceptible S-W-N and E-SE. It was first reported by Liam Kenny.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 10 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.