Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathneestin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathneestin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93349, -6.57339
- SMR number
- LH011-152----
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 slight N-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The faint cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 50m NNW-SSE) defined by fosse SSW-N-NE is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.