Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.58824, -6.63308
- SMR number
- ME031-088----
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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
Located on a slight N-S ridge that is on the NW-facing slope of the Hill of Tara ridge. An oval enclosure (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a single fosse NW-NE and SSE-SW is visible only on Google Earth (21/09/2021). The perimeter at NW-NE is connected with the cropmark of an E-W field drain that is aligned with the S avenue leading W from the site of Moortown House c. 450m to the W. This enclosure could be a landscape feature, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced image from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.