Earthwork in Colvinstown, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated at the N edge of a plateau and at the crest of a NE-facing slope. An estate map of 1826 (16 F 19 (2)) in the National Library of Ireland depicts a small embanked enclosure at this location, but it does not appear on any other map. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME038-004

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Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Meath Chronicle; photographer not stated, www.meathchronicle.ie
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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