Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Flemingtown (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flemingtown (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52597, -6.49247
- SMR number
- ME038-060----
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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 a slight NE-facing slope, and most clearly visible on Google Earth (28/01/2017; 16/03/21) but also visible on other aerial imagery. A small rectangular and grass-covered area (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 50m E-W) has earthwork banks dividing it into small irregularly rectangular plots (dims c. 20m x c. 10m to c. 25m x c. 25m). No house site is identifiable but it is probably an unmapped house and farmyard. According to the Civil Survey (1656-8) in 1640 Flemingtown, which then included Cabinhill townland to the N, had four proprietors including Patrick Barnwall of Kilbrew (ME038-029----), and on the land were two farmhouses with outhouses and a common pasture of nearly 100 acres (Simington 1940, 106). The earthworks were first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (16/03/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 October 2021
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.