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Enclosure

Balreask (Deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Balreask, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Balreask (Deece Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.57919, -6.68816
SMR number
ME031-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. Aerial photograph (GB89.K.05) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; one of a group of enclosures and ring-ditches in close proximity. Aerial photograph (90.BK.18) shows cropmark of the enclosure recorded in 1989, with the addition of a curving fosse which extends from the enclosure on its western side, curves around the northern side of the enclosure and then extends eastwards, suggesting an associated field system. Two adjacent cropmarks, previously recorded in 1989, can also be seen on this photograph. It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1989

Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Amended: 9 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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