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Concentric enclosure

Dowth, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Dowth, 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
Dowth
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.70322, -6.43091
SMR number
ME020-085----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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

Situated on a bluff overlooking a SSW-NNE section of the River Boyne, which is c. 100m to the SE. A remote sensing survey (12R0080 ext.) conducted during 2015 recorded two widely-spaced ditch features (ext. diam. c. 90m NNE-SW; int. diam. c. 40m NNE-SSW) that survive SSW-N and back onto a quarry-face or what might have been a natural cliff. A doubling of the outer ditch feature at SW probably indicates a re-working of the enclosing element here. (Ní Lionáin and Davis 2016, 161)

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 Unpublished report; National Monuments Service, Dublin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

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

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