Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Edenakill, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edenakill
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04582, -6.49210
- SMR number
- LH003-031001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Cropmarks representing oval enclosure (max. dims. c. 82m NW-SE, c. 60m SW-NE) defined by two widely-spaced ditches on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ALK 12, APG 78). Two areas of burnt stone (LH003-031002- and LH003-031003-) visible on the site in 1966.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.