Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balreask (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balreask (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56945, -6.66476
- SMR number
- ME037-069----
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 rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse S-N-E is visible on Google Earth (07/05/2017; 20/03/2018; 20/03/2022; 28/03/2022) but the defining feature appears to be missing E-SE. It is also visible on MapGenie images (2004-06), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (20/03/2022)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.