Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Dowth,glebe (slane Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth,glebe (slane Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70196, -6.44911
- SMR number
- ME020-082----
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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
Situated in a fold on a broad plateau. A magnetic gradiometry survey (12R0080 ext.) undertaken during 2014 in the Glebe Field of the Dowth estate identified a series of burgage plots with some house platforms aligned along a central NE-SW roadway, which appears to correspond to a natural break of slope. The settlement is probably later medieval in date, and constitutes the manorial village that developed around Dowth parish church (ME020-019----), and the tower house (ME020-018----) that are at the NE end of the ‘street’. The recorded features cover an area of about 3.5 ha (c. 8.5 acres) extending SW from the church. An isolated farmstead c.45m to the south of the W end of the village, evident as a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m x c. 40m) with a house structure in the N interior, may have been a higher status dwelling associated with the settlement. (Ní Lionáin and Davis 2016, 157)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 December 2016
References
Ní Lionáin, C. and S. Davis 2016 Conservation Plan for the Cultural Heritage of the Devenish Lands at Dowth. Unpublished report; National Monuments Service, Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.