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
- 53.73577, -7.12839
- SMR number
- ME015-129----
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 the S-facing slope of the Slieve na Caillighe ridge. A raised sub-rectangular feature (dims of top c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013) and on Google Earth (05/10/2009). It was first reported by Liam Kenny.
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.