Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Thomastown (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Thomastown (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72598, -7.08763
- SMR number
- ME015-126----
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 fairly level landscape. A rectangular grass-covered enclosure (dims c. 55m NNE-SSW; c. 45-55m WNW-ESE) defined by what might be moats (Wth c. 5-7m) on every side except the SE is visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 17/01/2020). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2002)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.