Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tullygowan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullygowan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94348, -6.62925
- SMR number
- LH010-018----
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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
Situated at the flat NW end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge with good commanding views. This is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by narrow fosse visible on the OSI images (1995). It is also visible on Google Earth (19/06/2018), but no feature is visible at ground level. Enclosure (LH010-024----) is c. 160m to the NNW and enclosure (LH010-025----) is c. 35m to the SE.
See the attached enhanced aerial view(top) from Google Earth
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 April 2012
Amended; 11 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.