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
- 53.68411, -6.26719
- SMR number
- ME028-101----
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
Situated on a broad low rise in a low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 33m E-W; c. 31m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible only on Digital Globe (c. 2013). It was first reported by Joanne Hughes.
See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.