Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Alexander Reid, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alexander Reid
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64507, -6.65020
- SMR number
- ME025-096003-
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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
During Phase 4 the rath became absorbed with the E and W annexes into a large subrectangular enclosure (int. dims c. 70m plus E-W; c. 40m N-S) where the principal activity might be represented by many of the eleven cereal-drying kilns (ME025-096007-) throughout the excavated area. The line of the fosse, although re-cut, remained the same at as that of the annexes at N and W but at S a new line parallel with the S side of the annexes but 5m outside it was cut. It was U-shaped and flat-bottomed but a return at E was not found as the ditch shallowed out on the slight rise to the E and it may have been connected with a wider field system. Towards the W end the new ditch truncated two kilns and the E ditch of the earlier phase of the smaller outer W annexe (ME025-096004-), although a ditch defining the E edge of the later W annexe debouches into it. (McGlade 2017, vol. 1, 28-30; 83-5)
See the attached plans from McGalde 2017 (vol. 1, P 22, 29) _01 location; _02 enclosure;
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 April, 2023
McGlade, S. 2017 Preliminary Excavation Report, Site D, Alexander Reid, Navan. Licence: 16E0449. Unpublished report, 2 vols Archaeology Plan
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.