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Enclosure

Meenlagh, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Meenlagh, 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
Meenlagh
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.74167, -6.94990
SMR number
ME016-065----

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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

Located on a slight rise on the NW bank of the NW-SE River Blackwater, at a point where it changes direction from NW-SE to WSW-ENE. The stream is c. 110-135m distant SE-WSW and it is also just across the river from the early church site of Castlekeeran (ME016-006----). The parchmark in grass of a circular area (int. diam. c. 53m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by what is probably a continuous fosse (Wth c. 5m) is visible on Apple Maps (2018). It is also less clearly visible on OSI images (1995) and Google Earth (02/07/2018), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 June 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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