Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Newtown Or Ballyfallon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Or Ballyfallon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60434, -6.89604
- SMR number
- ME029-031----
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 in a low-lying landscape with the canalised NNW-SSE Athboy River c. 40m to the E. It is on land that was once part of the demesne of Ballyfallon House, which is c. 400m to the SW. A large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m NW-SE; c. 85m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth (17/01/2020) and other aerial images. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached views from (_01) Google Earth (17/01/2020) and (_02) Digital Globe (2011-13)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.