Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Embanked enclosure
Carranstown,caulstown (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carranstown,caulstown (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67562, -6.38836
- SMR number
- ME027-078----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. A LiDAR survey, provided courtesy of Steve Davies, shows a large circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 120m; ext. diam. c. 200m) defined by a broad bank feature (Wth c. 30-40). A gradiometry survey within and around the portion of the enclosure in Caulstown during 2018 produced no indication of the bank of the large enclosure, but did identify a probable enclosure (ME027-078001-) inside its perimeter at E and another less certain feature c. 100m to the S (Leigh 2018, 3).
See the attached LiDAR image courtesy of Steve Davis
Compiled by Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 07/01/2019
References
Leigh, J. 2018 Geophysical Survey Report, Carranstown, County Meath. Licence No: 18R0231. Unpublished report, J. M. Leigh Surveys
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.