Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Kennastown (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kennastown (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53240, -6.82299
- SMR number
- ME036-090----
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
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of irregularly-shaped fields defined by drains and covering an area of about 20 acres (c. 8 ha) is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2018). A large circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m) defined by a single fosse or ditch feature has some rectilinear fields (dims c. 60m x c. 40m) attached to it extending off to the SE. No house sites or roadways can be detected within it, but the fields are overlain by the cropmarks of two ditches on either side of a NW-SE field bank that is marked on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy and it was also reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.