Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Rathbranchurch, County Meath, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.