Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newrath (louth By., Louth Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newrath (louth By., Louth Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94204, -6.56853
- SMR number
- LH011-151----
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
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It is also visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the enhanced aerial view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.