Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybarrack, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybarrack
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98613, -6.44840
- SMR number
- LH007-197----
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
Located towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a wide unbroken fosse (Wth c. 5-8m) is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also faintly visible on OSI images (1995). The enclosure was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére followed by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.