Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Clonymeath, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonymeath
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49219, -6.71409
- SMR number
- ME043-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located at the bottom of a gentle SW-facing slope. This is not depicted on any OS map. It is a large subrectangular and slightly domed grass-covered area (dims c. 100m N-S; c. 62m E-W) defined by scarps (H 0.6m at S to 1.2m at N), with an outer silted ditch (at W: Wth of top 4-5m; ext. D 0.3-0.4m) W-N. This ditch communicates with a silted drain extending W. An entrance was not identified, and the enclosure is probably part of a relict and probably not very ancient but unmapped field system.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.