What is recorded here
Enclosure is a subcircular grass-covered area in County Meath, Ireland, defined by a scarp and attached to a smaller bank-and-fosse fragment. It sits around the base of a knoll holding a rath, suggesting the land was shaped for residence, exclusion or ritual rather than left wild. The missing entrance and broken southern arc preserve more than they reveal, inviting imagination about the people who lived beside or within them.
Situated around the base of a knoll which is the summit of a N-S ridge and the location of rath (ME015-081----). This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 95m E-W; c. 85m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.5-4.5m; H 1.2-1.4m) which is extant SSW-N-NE and morphs into a field bank ENE-SE but it is absent SE-SSW. An original entrance is not identified. Another fragment of an enclosure defined by an arc (Chord c. 40m NNW-SSE) of a low bank and fosse is attached to the S of the large enclosure and may be the remnant of a field system.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January 2019
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- What survives
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