Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Redcow, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Redcow
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03336, -6.39552
- SMR number
- LH004-156007-
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
Situated in a low-lying landscape with a small NW-SE canalised stream or drain c. 200m to the NE. A concentration of eight ring-ditches, probably representing barrows, was recorded in July 2018 using a drone-mounted camera. They are in a limited area of about 10 acres (c. 4 ha) but are fairly dispersed, being c. 20-50m from their nearest neighbour. This is a circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) defined by a continuous fosse feature, which appears to have been made in short straight sections (L c. 10m). Six sections are visible, but one at SW may be from a NW-SE field drain, and there is probably an entrance gap at SE, so it may be a rath.
See the attached view courtesy of Mathew Kelly.
Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Mathew Kelly and Steve McGlade.
Date of upload: 9 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.