Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtowndarver, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtowndarver
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92206, -6.45962
- SMR number
- LH011-126----
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
Aerial photograph (GB89.D.42) shows cropmark of a complex curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing east; a circular structure and a pit are located within the enclosure. Two attached curvilinear enclosures extend outwards, the southern one having an inner palisade ditch and an entrance facing south-east.
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.