Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - embanked barrow
Walterstown (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53198, -6.70383
- SMR number
- ME037-055----
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 what is probably a rise in an undulating landscape. The parch-mark in grass of a complex enclosure is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2019). What might be a small mound (diam. c. 10m) is surrounded by what could be a fosse and a wide outer bank (Wth c. 5-10m) which has a narrow outer fosse or drain. There are entrances through the bank at S (Wth c. 5m) and N (Wth c. 5m). It is within a D-shaped enclosure (int. dims c. 65m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW) defined by a fosse that has an entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at NW but this fosse is largely missing (L c. 30m) on the SW side. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy and it was also 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.