Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Calliaghstown (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Calliaghstown (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66863, -6.32146
- SMR number
- ME027-131----
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 gentle S-facing slope down to the WSW-ENE Nanny River, with the stream c. 60m distant at the closest point. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse is visible on a digital image captured with a drone-mounted camera by Colin Byrne on 22/07/2021. It is also faintly visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021).
See the attached aerial view courtesy of Colin Byrne
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.