Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castletown Tara, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown Tara
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rath na Seanaidh of Chair
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rath na Seanaidh or Kings Chair
- Coordinates
- 53.58016, -6.61148
- SMR number
- ME031-033016-
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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Circular area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by two banks and intervening fosse, beyond which was a berm defined by a third bank enclosing an oval area (max. dim. c. 65m). Disturbed in late nineteenth century (Macalister 1931, 39-43) and excavated by Ó Riordáin in 1950's. Barrow (ME031-033017-) existed between outer and middle bank to NW. (Macalister 1931, 33-4; TRIA 1837, 175)
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.