Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.72217, -7.11094
- SMR number
- ME015-047002-
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
Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a hill. Attached to rath (ME015-047----) at NE is a small D-shaped annexe visible as a raised grass-covered area (dims 14.5m NE-SW; c. 11m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 2.3m; H 0.9m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.