Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Burtonstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtonstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62231, -6.50476
- SMR number
- ME032-090----
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
Located on a gentle N-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 15-17m N-S) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 1-2m) W-N-E is visible only on Apple Maps (2018). The enclosure springs from an E-W ditch (Wth c. 2m) curving slightly to the N although there is no evidence of this feature S of the E-W road that is just to the S. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.