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Settlement cluster

Tlachta, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Tlachta, 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
Tlachta
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62623, -6.87520
SMR number
ME030-034----

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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

Located at the bottom of the E-facing slope of the broad Hill of Ward or Tlachta. An area of habitation plots, fields and a sunken hollow way were identified on LiDAR material within a subrectangular field (max. dims c. 350m NE-SW: c. 170m NW-SE) (Davis, 2011, 39) before it was partially ploughed. There is evidence of narrow land divisions (dims c. 65m plus NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE; H 0.2-3m) running along the W side of the area with a larger rectangular field (dims 120m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) just to the E. This large enclosure has a raised rectangular area (dims c. 28m x c. 14m) at the E angle and a raised circular feature (diam. c. 25m; H 0.6m) outside the W angle, which is interpreted as a possible windmill mound. A remote sensing survey (12R0058) recovered evidence of two three-roomed house sites (dims c. 15m NW-SE; c. 4-5m NE-SW) located on a NNW-SSE street or hollow way that are probably associated with the smaller W fields. Three areas that are interpreted as possible middens were also identified. (Davis 2017, 7)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 21 April 2017

References

Davis, S. 2017 Hill of Ward, Tlachtga, Athboy. Geophysical survey report (Interim). Licence numbers: 12R0057, 12R0058, 12R0059 and 12R0055. Unpublished report, UCD School of Archaeology

Davis, S. 2011 The unseen Hill of Ward: new insights from LiDAR data. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 25, No. 4, 36-40.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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