Earthwork in Ballymacad, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on the beaded part of a NNE-SSW esker ridge (H c. 6m), it is not marked on any OS map but is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 719, 725), and on later series. This is a large grass-covered, oval area (dims 76m NNE-SSW; 61m WNW-ESE) defined by a fosse (at S: Wth of top c. 6m; int. D 1.4m; ext. D c. 1m) with an outer bank (Wth of base 4.5m; ext. H 1m) S-SW across the esker, which declines into a berm (at NW: Wth 4.5mm) SW-N, but the fosse across the esker at N is truncated by an E-W field bank. The berm is more eroded N-E-S but runs inside the line of the fosse at S and rises up the esker before it fades into the slope. It might be an unfinished motte.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME008-046

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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John Quirke / www.quirke.ie, via Meath Chronicle, www.meathchronicle.ie
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