Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balrath Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrath Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69729, -6.91085
- SMR number
- ME016-067----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse or drain is visible on Aerial Premium (2013-18). There are traces of an outer fosse SW-NNW and E-SE. The straight side at SW is part of a straight NW-SW field drain. The drain is part of a post-medieval field system of large fields that is not marked on any map but the enclosure could be older. The enclosure is also faintly visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017, 07/05/2017; 16/05/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Aerial Premium (2103-18)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.