Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Harlockstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harlockstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49442, -6.41187
- SMR number
- ME045-047----
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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
Located at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a small calalised W-E trributary of the Broad Meadow River. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse is visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe (2011-13). There are traces of a second outer fosse W-NW. It was first reported by T. Condit.
See the attached enhanced view from Ditital Globe
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Amended: 21 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.