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Moated site

Cunnicar, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Cunnicar, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cunnicar
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
54.02344, -6.51415
SMR number
LH006-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Situated on the summit of a low NW-SE ridge and consisting of an almost square area (38m NW-SE by 37.5m NE-SW) enclosed by two well-defined banks and intervening fosse (Wth at base on inner bank c. 10m at NW, int. H 1m, ext. c. 2.3m, fosse max. Wth at NW 7m, Wth at base of outer bank 4.5m at NW, int. H 1.9m, ext. 0.6m). There is a well defined entrance, probably modern, at the SW with a causeway across the fosse. The interior of the enclosure is slightly higher than the level of the surrounding land. The inner bank is best perserved at the NW and NE; elsewhere it is defaced to varying degrees. The outer bank is fairly slight, especially on either side of the entrance. The banks contain a large amount of stone and may possibly have been partially stone-faced.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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