Enclosure in Ballymacan, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located on the NE end of a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 200m) that is part of the ENE-WSW Slieve Breagh ridge. A large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 65m E-W) is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as a ‘Fort’. In 1969 it was described (SMR file) as a circular area (diam. 50m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by a small section of a bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) incorporated into a field bank SE-S with an outer drain, and by a low scarp elsewhere.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME013-011

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