Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursus
Ballinvally,drumsawry Or Summerbank, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally,drumsawry Or Summerbank
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75283, -7.12182
- SMR number
- ME009-087----
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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 on an undulating landscape N of Slieve na Calliagh ridge. A possible cursus was identified in 1995 as two very low parallel banks, 15m apart, with internal fosses extending N-S (L 210m plus) but its full extent is not known (Newman 1995). A standing stone, lying prone at the point where it meets a wide NE-SW field wall, may mark its NW end. Aerial photographs (GB91.DD.37; GB91.DE.05) from 1991 show the banks cutting elements of field system (ME009-108----) so it might be a late feature like a roadway. From its SE end another section could extend SW (L c. 290m), with a second standing stone (ME009-087001-) close to the turn. The course of this section is less certain, although it seems to terminate at a small, poorly-drained area.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 November 2018
References
Newman, C. 1995 A Cursus at Loughcrew, Co. Meath. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 9, No. 4, 19-21.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.