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Enclosure

Nuttstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Nuttstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Nuttstown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not Indicated
Coordinates
53.45048, -6.41844
SMR number
ME051-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an oval feature (dims c. 65m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 24/06/2018; 03/07/2019). It is also visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013), and it was first reported by Paul Steen.

See the attached views from Google Earth (-1) and Digital Globe (_3)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 1 April, 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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