Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcrew
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72209, -7.12102
- SMR number
- ME015-046----
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 a rise towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of the NNW-SSE Carrigawaddy ridge, with lower ground to the NE. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small subrectangular grass-covered enclosure (dims 15m N-S; 14.5m E-W) that slopes down to the NE (H 1.4m). It is defined by low earthen banks (at W: Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.2m) but the E side is reduced to a scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.7m). There is no visible fosse or entrance but there are E-W cultivation ridges in the interior and it is probably a post-medieval garden.
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 revision: 8 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.