Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balrath (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74243, -7.10562
- SMR number
- ME015-125----
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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 SE-facing slope of Slieve na Calliagh. This is a slightly raised D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims c. 24m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) with straight sides at NW and NE defined by what is probably a slight bank and outer fosse or drain. It is overlain by NE-SW cultivation ridges but NW-SE ridges to the SE stop at the SE edge of the enclosure. It is visible on Google Earth (05/10/2009; 24/03/2017; 17/01/2020) and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2020)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.