Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70483, -6.48475
- SMR number
- ME019-077----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photographs (GB89.J.11 and 14) show cropmarks of an irregular curvilinear enclosure defined by a parch mark of a bank and a positive cropmark of an external fosse; contiguous with ME019-027---- and ME019-028----.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Cropmark of monument visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 12 November 2005.
See attached aerial photograph taken from Google Earth.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Industrial siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.