Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Irishtown (skreen By., Kilmoon Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Irishtown (skreen By., Kilmoon Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56076, -6.46043
- SMR number
- ME038-011001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the gentle W-facing slope of Windmill Hill. A magnetic gradiometer survey (17R0020) by J. M. Leigh (2017) identified two enclosures and a possible third entwined with the perimeter of the Irishtown henge. Two straight lengths of a possible ditch, are entwined with the signal for the ditch of the henge at the W edge of that feature enclosing a rectangular area (dims c. 30m).
See the attached illustration adapted from Leigh (2017, fig. 3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April 2022
References
Leigh, J. M. 2017 Geophysical Report, Irishtown, Co. Meath. Licence: 17R0020. Unpublished report, Author
Hurley, M. 2017 Archaeological Assessment (including testing) of Proposed Solar Farm Development at Irishtown, Kilbrew, Co. Meath. Licence: 17E0116. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.