Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Deenes, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deenes
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63251, -6.43056
- SMR number
- ME027-108001-
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 slightly undulating landscape with, with a W-E section of the Nanny River on the S side of a collection of barrows and enclosures but the river turns NNE to the E of the area. From 2016 Noel Meehan has been recording cropmark enclosures in the Keenoge area on a drone-mounted camera, and he has identified this concentration of barrows and enclosures in Deenes townland. This feature is on a rise and is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a slight fosse, and a number of pits can be seen inside the perimeter. The enclosure is depicted as a tree-ring on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map and the pits are probably maculae left by the tree roots.
See the attached aerial view taken from the W, courtesy of Noel Meehan
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.