Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Johnstown (moyfenrath Lower By., Rathcore Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (moyfenrath Lower By., Rathcore Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41715, -6.81527
- SMR number
- ME048-039----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 on a level low-lying landscape. Aerial photograph (GB.AM.32) shows the cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a fosse with an entrance at E. The kink in the modern field boundary respects the southern side of the enclosure. This has been plough-levelled, and it does not appear on any other aerial images. Archaeological testing (19E0576) by L. Coen in the field immediately to the SW on the other side of a wide E-W land drain produced no related material (excavations.ie 2019:262).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 August,2019
Amended: 30 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.