Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynakill (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44629, -6.87820
- SMR number
- ME048-052----
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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 a locally high hill, with an equally high summit c. 350m to the SSE. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m N-S) with a protrusion at NE giving it an oval appearance (dim. c. 75-80m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018). It is defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2-4m), but no entrance is detected. A fosse or leat (Wth c. 4m) leads from the fosse at S off to the NE, curving around the enclosure but increasing the distance from it as it proceeds (visible L c. 70m). In the interior is a subrectangular area (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a lighter fosse feature with no visible entrance gap, and there may be a smaller area delimited within this. A NE-SW field bank that is depicted on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map approaching from the SW and is visible on the Google image as a double ditch, curves around the enclosure at NW and changes direction to E. The enclosure was first reported by Anthony Murphy and also reported by Jean-Charles Caillére.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.