Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballaghtalion, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghtalion
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55412, -6.87939
- SMR number
- ME036-083001-
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)
- 1869 · 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 fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dim c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a single slight fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/ 2018; 14/07/2018). There is a large pit inside the perimeter at E which the fosse extends to enclose. The enclosure is entangled with the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (ME036-083002-), the SE angle of which is at the centre of this feature. They were first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.