Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown Or Cloneen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Or Cloneen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47965, -6.98980
- SMR number
- ME041-028----
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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
Situated on a gently undulating landscape. A subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by a wide earthen bank (Wth c. 5m) is most clearly visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 20/03/2018; 17/01/2020). It is also visible on Aerial Premium (2013-18), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (17/02/2020)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 11 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.