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
- 53.59007, -6.71553
- SMR number
- ME031-089----
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 on a gentle SE-facing slope with a small canalised WSW-ENE stream c. 130m to the S. The cropmark of a subcircular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a single continuous and fairly wide fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible only on Aerial Premium (2013-18). There is a single pit at the centre. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Aerial Premium (2013-18)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 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.