Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Kiltoome, County Meath, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.