Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Swainstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swainstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55283, -6.63967
- SMR number
- ME037-070----
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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 on a steep S-facing slope on the demesne of Swainstown House, but it is not recorded on any map. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45-50m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible on Bing maps (2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (21/04/2019; 04/03/2022; 28/03/2022) where it appears to have a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 35) on the E side. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (28/03/2022)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 25 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.