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Enclosure - large enclosure

Drumbaragh, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Drumbaragh, 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
Drumbaragh
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73398, -6.93356
SMR number
ME016-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Situated in a fairly low-lying landscape, it is not depicted on any map. Aerial photographs taken by Leo Swan and made available courtesy of Katherine Daly show a large subcircular grass-covered enclosure (dims c. 90m NE-SW; c. 80m NW-SE) probably defined by a fosse. It is also visible on aerial images (OSAP 1995) and on Google Earth (19/04/2008) but its visible profile may have become eroded after that date. The large enclosure (ME016-058----) is c. 160m to the SE, and both may have been enclosed woods on the demesne of Drumbaragh.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 5 February, 2019

References

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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