Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballyhist, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhist
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75666, -7.02550
- SMR number
- ME010-046----
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 on a steep N-facing slope. A subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 110m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) id defined by an earthen bank S-W-N which is incorporated into a road bank N-SE, and the perimeter probably incorporates an area of grass-covered rock outcrop SE-S. The interior and the bank at W is overlain by E-W cultivation ridges that are clearly visible on Google Earth (05/10/2009), and it also visible on other aerial images. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.