Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Broughattin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broughattin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.04635, -6.34202
- SMR number
- LH004-076001-
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
Marked as a 'fort' on 1867 revision of OS 6-inch map. Shown as polygonal enclosure in latest ed. of 6-inch map. Souterrain (LH004-076002-) discovered in interior in the 1960s. Both enclosure and souterrain now destroyed.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Watchtowerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.