Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldbridge, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldbridge
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71697, -6.39458
- SMR number
- ME020-088----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the bottom of a N-facing slope down to a W-E section of the River Boyne, with the river c. 100m to the N, and just E of the M1 motorway. Archaeological testing (08E0506) identified a large enclosure (int. diam. c. 70m) defined by a ditch which produced a wealth of Middle Bronze Age pottery. (Ó Maoldúin 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2017
References
Ó Maoldúin, R. 2011. Oldbridge. Testing. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 2008, 290-1, No. 977. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.