Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Galleastown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galleastown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72198, -7.11119
- SMR number
- ME015-047001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · 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
Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a hill. There is a rectangular house site at the centre of rath (ME015-047----) visible as a rectangular, grass-covered sunken area (int. dims c. 7m N-S; 2m N-S; D 0.4-0.8m) defined by earthen banks (Wth of base 3-4.5m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) with possible entrances in the short E and W walls.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.