Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Aghaboys, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghaboys
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03584, -6.37782
- SMR number
- LH004-158003-
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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 on a gently undulating, low-lying landscape. The cropmarks of four enclosures are visible only on Apple Maps (2021). Three of them are intertwined, and the fourth is c. 50m to the NE. This is probably the largest of the intercutting features and is a circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single slight fosse (Wth c. 1m). A large shapeless quarry that is probably a number of intercutting pits has damaged it at S. The cropmark of an unmapped NE-SW field drain runs through the three enclosures. The complex was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.