Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Calliaghwee, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Calliaghwee
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43115, -6.42052
- SMR number
- ME051-011----
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 on a fairly level landscape, at the crest of a slight slope down to the valley of the N-S Pinkeen River c. 50m to the W. Aerial photograph (GB89.AE.06) shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse, with an entrance facing south leading into a contiguous rectilinear enclosure. The enclosure is also visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (24/06/2018)
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.