Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballynaskea, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaskea
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44462, -6.81167
- SMR number
- ME048-008----
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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 at the E end of a slight E-W ridge. A rectangular enclosure with rounded corners is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP: AHM 5, AVO 68). This is a subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 77m E-W; 58m N-S) with slightly higher corners defined largely by a scarp (at E: Wth 1.6m; H 1.4m), and traces of a fosse especially at N (Wth of top 4m; ext. D 0.2m). The interior rises to a platform (dims 32m x 32m) at the highest point against the perimeter at S. It was overlain by a N-S field bank in 1984 and the area W of this (dim. 13m E-W) had been levelled producing clear evidence of the vegetation mark an outer fosse (Wth 4-6m) in this area. The visible profile had been removed by 1995 (OSAP).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 27 August 2019
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
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