Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lowrath North, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowrath North
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93879, -6.54312
- SMR number
- LH011-158----
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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)
- 1799 · 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
Located on top of and at the centre of a WNW-ESE ridge (L c. 400m). It is not marked on any historical mapping but is located in an alcove attached to a larger field to the N. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on OSI images (1995). The cropmark of a NNE-SSW field drain extends N from its perimeter at N and it could be incorporated into a regular but unmapped field system that is post-medieval in date. It was first reported by John Olney.
See the attached enhanced view from OSI (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 May 2023
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.