Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newgrange
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.69079, -6.46991
- SMR number
- ME019-049001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated some 500m SE of passage tomb mound (ME019-045----) at Newgrange. Mound c. 25m in diam., nearly 6m high, listed as possible passage-tomb (Herity 1974, 247). Surrounded by but not centrally placed within bank (ME019-049002-) (O'Kelly 1978, 49-50).
See attached Google Earth aerial photograph taken 12 November 2005.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 08 November 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1964).
References
O'Kelly, C. 1978 (3rd ed.) Illustrated guide to Newgrange and the other Boyne monuments. Cork. Author.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.