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Enclosure

Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Newgrange, 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
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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

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

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

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