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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilskeer, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilskeer, 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
Kilskeer
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.69108, -6.99757
SMR number
ME016-043005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

There are large enclosures from the field system (ME016-044----) in the fields surrounding St. Scíre’s early church site (ME016-043----). An archaeo-magnetic survey in these fields identified elements of an ecclesiastical enclosure in two parallel ditches, 20m apart, curving around the graveyard just to its N. (Gibson 2007, 35)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 7 August, 2014

References

Gibson, P. J. 2007 Archaeo-magnetic investigation of the former monastic site at Kilskyre, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Midhe, 19, 33-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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