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
- 53.49807, -6.69857
- SMR number
- ME043-061----
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
Situated on a gentle MW-facing slope. The vegetation mark of a large oval and grass-covered enclosure (dims c. 75m N-S; c. 55m E-W) defined by what is probably a wide fosse (Wth c. 5-15m) is visible on Google Earth (20/03/2018; 02/2019; 14/11/2019; 25/03/2020; 04/03/2022). Two wide banks (Wth c. 10m; L c. 130m) extend W from the fosse at NW and SW until they meet a N-S current field boundary, the space between them narrowing to c. 50m at W. The enclosure does not appear on other aerial images, and it was first reported by S. McGlade.
See the attached image from Google Earth (Feb. 2019)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.