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Barrow - stepped barrow

Newtown Girley, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - stepped barrow, Newtown Girley, 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
Newtown Girley
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65036, -6.89177
SMR number
ME024-009----

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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)
  • 1869 · 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 fairly level landscape with a small E-W canalised stream to the S. This feature is not depicted on any map but is visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: 306/ 1363, 1364), and on some later images (Digital Globe; OSAP (2017); Google Earth 18/06/2017). This consists of a low grass-covered mound (diam. 54.3m N-S; 51.3m E-W; H 1.4m) separated by a berm (Wth 4.8-6m) from a low earthen bank (at SSE: Wth of base 8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) ESE-SSE that is largely reduced to a scarp (H 1m) (max. ext. diam. 72m).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 16 April 2019

References

ACAP - Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel. Co. Dublin.

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 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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