Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newgrange
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69424, -6.49285
- SMR number
- ME019-065----
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
Large D-shaped enclosure visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (Swan and Condit 2000, 25). The monument consists of a D-shaped area defined by a bank (H c. 1m; Wth c. 9m) and outer fosse (Wth. c. 6m) along straight side (L. 80m) at N (Swan and Condit 2000, 26). Visible as a cropmark on Google Earth aerial photographs taken 12 November 2005.
See attached aerial photograph taken from Google Earth.
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
References
Swan, L. and Condit, T. 2000 New enclosure at Brú na Bóinne. Archaeology Ireland 14, 24-27.
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.