Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathbody, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbody
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92178, -6.58422
- SMR number
- LH011-150----
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 an E-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a fosse that is only visible N-E-S on OSI images (1995). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached aerial view from OSI (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.