Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Vesingstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vesingstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44873, -6.51181
- SMR number
- ME050-063----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. A large oval enclosure (dims c. 220m WNW-ESE; c. 100m NNE-SSW) that appears to be defined by a low earthen bank is visible on Google Earth (27/06/2019, 14/05/2020). It is bisected by a WNW-ESE canalised stream, and is also visible on LiDAR imagery from the Open Topographic Viewer. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (27/07/2019)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.