Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Donaghmore (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore (ratoath By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49671, -6.37716
- SMR number
- ME045-048----
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 at the S edge of a fairly level landscape with the shallow valley of a small SW-NE tributary of the W-E Broad Meadow River just to the S, and a NW-SE section of the stream is c. 80m to the SW. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (int. dims c. 57m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by a single continuous fosse feature is visible on Bing aerial images (c. 2013). The fairly straight edge is at N and is almost parallel with an E-W relict field drain that is also visible just to its N and is associated with a field bank that is marked on the 1912 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It may have been a rath. It was first reported by T. Condit.
See the attached view (left) from Digital Globe (2011-13)
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.