Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Castletown Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Castletown Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.02540, -6.33622
- SMR number
- LH007-019001-
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
Located on level ground near the estuary of the Castletown River. The site consists of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) at the NW corner of a roughly square enclosure (c. 54m N-S, c. 52m E-W). There is a second roughly circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 44m N-S, c. 39m E-W) in the E section of the square enclosure. A third, ill-defined enclosure lies to the W of the others. (CUCAP, BDP 50)
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.