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Barrow - ditch barrow

Rathbranchurch, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Rathbranchurch, 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
Rathbranchurch
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.76474, -6.59975
SMR number
ME013-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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

Located on a shelf towards the top of a NE-facing slope, and c. 50m NE of the hilltop enclosure (ME013-037----). This feature is not depicted on any map but is faintly visible on vertical aerial images (GSIAP: N 735, 736) from the 1970s and the field bank and townland boundary with Cereewood curves around the perimeter at SE. It is a sunken grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m) with a slight mound (diam. c. 20m; H 0.2m) at the centre that is surrounded by a wide fosse (Wth of top c. 10m; ext. D 0.4m). It has no external bank and an entrance is not identified.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Amended: 8 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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