TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Enclosure - large enclosure

Ballyclare, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Ballyclare, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyclare
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47141, -6.90968
SMR number
ME041-017----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a slight rise in a level landscape. This is depicted on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a large enclosure and described as a ‘Fort’ on the former. It is a large subcircular grass-covered and slightly domed (H 1m) area (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 75m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m), and an outer fosse or ditch (at ESE: Wth of top 4m; ext. D 0.5m; at WNW: Wth of top 9m; int. D 1.5m; ext. D 0.4m) W-N-E. The interior is cut by a NE-SW field bank and drain SE of the centre, and this field bank and the perimeter around the SE part of the enclosure are covered in bushes. An original entrance is not identified.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 9 August 2019
Amended:24 March 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Enclosure - large enclosure in Meath All County Meath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map