Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Irishtown (Dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Irishtown (Dunboyne By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45549, -6.35751
- SMR number
- ME051-014----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a large oval enclosure (dims c. 75m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse is visible on a Digital Globe image (2011-2013) with elements of an unmapped field system extending off to the E. It was first reported by T. Condit.
See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Amended: 5 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.