Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Raloaghan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raloaghan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87420, -6.79264
- SMR number
- ME002-060----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. The cropmark of a large D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature and with the straight E-W side at N is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). It’s NE angle was accommodated by a niche in a NW-SE field bank. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny, and the line of a gas pipeline going to the gypsum plant at Baalynaclose, c. 600m to the W, runs through it but the enclosure was not detected. Rath (ME002-054----) is at the SE end of the drumlin ridge, c. 150m to the E.
See the attached view from OSI images (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 January, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.