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Settlement deserted - medieval

Kiltoome, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Kiltoome, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kiltoome
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56757, -6.76400
SMR number
ME036-066----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Aerial photograph (GB89.M.09) shows an extensive sequence of low-level earthworks radiating outwards from the church enclosure; the earthworks comprise house plots, a hollow-way, small rectilinear fields and curving boundaries indicating a deserted settlement, probably of medieval date.

Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of upload: 10 June 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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