Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ninch, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ninch
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68088, -6.25688
- SMR number
- ME028-059----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by fosse features on each side is visible on an aerial photograph (OSAP: 1995). (Pers. com. Colin Byrne)
See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995)
Date of upload: 15 September, 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.