Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bective, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bective
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59135, -6.72187
- SMR number
- ME031-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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 slight rise in a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It has a wide entrance (Wth c. 8-10m) at E. The ring-ditch (ME031-080001-), a circular feature (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse feature, is in the interior a little SW of the centre). It was first reported by Ciaran McDonnell, and the features are also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013), and OSI images (2018).
See the attached view from Google Earth (14/07/2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 March, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.