Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Castletown Tara, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown Tara
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58326, -6.61399
- SMR number
- ME031-033044-
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 with surrounding ditch and outer bank (diam. 33m) (JRSAI 1978, 52, fig. 22, site 3). Barely perceptible on ground.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.