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Enclosure - large enclosure

Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Slanecastle Demesne, 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
Slanecastle Demesne
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71703, -6.54597
SMR number
ME019-109----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (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

Located at the summit of the Hill of Slane. The motte (ME019-060001-) is separated by a berm (Wth c. 30m) from a large outer enclosure (ext. diam. c. 120m) which is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 3.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.3m) and outer fosse (at SE: Wth of top 1.6m; Wth of base 1m; ext. H 0.4m) that is most visible E-S-NW but is reduced to a low scarp elsewhere. At the SE the bank is built onto the scarp of the earthwork (ME019-016015-) and post-dates it. If the motte originated as a prehistoric barrow, this large enclosure might have fulfilled a ceremonial role in relation to it (Herity 1993, 145-6). (Seaver and Brady 2011)

Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Date of upload : 29 March 12
Amended: 27 January 2021

References

Seaver, M. and Brady, C. 2011 Hill of Slane Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 55

Herity, M. 1993 Motes and Mounds at Royal Sites in Ireland: Raith Airthir, Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 23, 127-51.

Nearby in the register

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

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