Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Batterstown (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Batterstown (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51490, -6.87358
- SMR number
- ME036-096----
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
Located on a fairly level landscape with a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 280m to the N. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 47m NE-SW) defined by a single slight fosse feature that has a pit (diam. c. 5m) on the perimeter at SE is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2019). It was 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.