Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Baltrasna (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltrasna (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74254, -7.19424
- SMR number
- ME014-011----
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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 just off the N-facing slope of a slight ridge in an undulating landscape. It is depicted as an antiquity on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 21.5m N-S; c. 18m E-W) that slopes down to the N. It is defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 2.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) with some bushes, but the perimeter is largely quarried away NE-SE and there are old quarry holes in the perimeter at SW and W. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance and a mature deciduous tree is growing in the interior. It might be a tree-ring.
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 revision: 21 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.