Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ardrums Great, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrums Great
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43170, -6.74588
- SMR number
- ME049-028----
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 on the S-facing slope of a W-E spur. Aerial photograph (GB89.AM.37) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m) defined by a fosse. It is also visible on aerial images (OSAP: 2005; 2012) and Google Earth (28/06/2018).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.