Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bellew, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellew
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60467, -6.49205
- SMR number
- ME032-097----
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 E-facing slope. The cropmark of a subrectangular feature (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 17m NE-SW) defined by straight sections of ditches at N, NE and SE is visible on Apple Maps (2018). It is cut at SW by the cropmark of a rectangular or D-shaped quarry (dims c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) visible as a green feature. The quarry is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and described as a ‘Sand Pit’ but the enclosure is not depicted on any map. The cropmark of the quarry can also be seen on OSI images (1995, c. 2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced image from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.