Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Balsaw, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balsaw
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71435, -6.72509
- SMR number
- ME018-014----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level low-lying landscape with a NW-SE stream c. 80m to the SW. Aerial photographs from c. 1950 (ACAP: V307/1590) and 1973 (GSAP, N 269) show a large circular vegetation mark (diam. c. 140m) within which is the vegetation mark of rectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m x c. 60m). They can also be seen on MapGenie (2013) but are likely to be meandering old stream beds and not antiquities.
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 upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 24 March 2023
ACAP – Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel, Co. Dublin
GSIAP – Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey, Beggars Bush, Haddington Rd., Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.