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Enclosure

Irishtown (Skreen By., Kilmoon Par.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Irishtown (Skreen By., Kilmoon Par.), County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
53.56119, -6.45932
SMR number
ME038-011003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on the gentle NW-facing slope of Windmill Hill. A magnetic gradiometer survey (17R0020) by J. M. Leigh identified two enclosures and a possible third entwined with the perimeter of the Irishtown henge. Two lengths of a possible ditch, are entwined with the signal for the ditch of the henge at the NW edge of that feature enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 30m). The feature is only visible NW-N and SE-S and would be entwined with the perimeter of a larger oval enclosure (ME038-011002-) just to the SW.

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 Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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