Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Muchwood, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muchwood
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51832, -6.93886
- SMR number
- ME035-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a fairly level landscape. This feature is depicted as a D-shaped area (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) backing onto a NW-SE roadway at SW on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’. It is depicted as having a D-shaped pit or quarry (dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) in the centre that is open to the road. It had been completely quarried away by 1969 (SMR file).
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Amended: 5 July 2019
References
Moore, M. 1987 Archaeological inventory of county Meath. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.