Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
Blackfriary (2nd division), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackfriary (2nd division)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indciated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55494, -6.78204
- SMR number
- ME036-048053-
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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)
- 1811 · 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 on the broad plateau of the Porch Field. The shortest distance between the towns of Trim (ME036-048----) and Newtown Trim (ME036-049----) is along this route from the Sheep Gate (ME036-048011-) of Trim to the Augustinian priory (ME036-049003-) as was first recognised by Kelly (2005, 23-43), who quotes a grant from 1476 ‘of 15 acres of arable land lying between the road which goes from the Porch-gate of Trim to the Newtown’. The road is not clearly visible at the porch gate but c. 100m E of this it survives as a sunken hollow-way (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.2-0.5m) with hedge growth (L c. 300m) represented as a field bank on the OS 6-inch maps. On the E side of the Ring-road (R154) it is not immediately apparent but c. 100m from that road it emerges as a broad bank (Wth of base c. 6m; H 0.3m at N; H < 0.1m at S; L c. 200m) after which the hollow way (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2.7m; D 0.2-0.4m) resumes (L c. 300m) almost as far as the abbey.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 July 2019
References
Kelly, D. 2005 The Porchfield of Trim – a medieval ‘open-field’. Irish Geography, vol. 38 (1), 23-43.
Nearby in the register
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.