Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knavinstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knavinstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54244, -6.43818
- SMR number
- ME039-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
Situated on a level landscape c. 50m from the N bank of the E-W canalized Hurley River. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a slight grass-covered fosse is visible on Google Earth (23/09/2013, 28/01/2017). It was first reported by Jacqui Anderson.
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.