Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Monktown (moyfenrath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monktown (moyfenrath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52410, -6.87103
- SMR number
- ME036-094002-
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
Located at the centre of rath (ME036-094001-). An L-shaped excavated feature consisting of a pit (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 5m N-S) with a narrow pit extending N (L c. 12m) from its E end is possibly a souterrain. It is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2019), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.