Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
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
- 53.69218, -6.47056
- SMR number
- ME019-067005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Linear earthwork running E-W which could be the remains of an ancient road (pers. comm. Tom Condit) is visible on OS aerial photograph (OS8 1065).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
See attached OS aerial photograph showing linear earthwork.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb art (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.