Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilskeer, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.