Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Lisrenny (ardee By; Tallanstown Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisrenny (ardee By; Tallanstown Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90431, -6.53532
- SMR number
- LH014-007001-
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 small hill in a gently undulating landscape within the demesne of Lisrenny House, which his c. 500m to the SSW. The cropmark of an unmapped circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a single slight fosse is visible only on Google Earth (Mar. 2022; Apr. 2022). It may have an internal, eccentrically placed enclosure (diam. c. 30m), and the entrance to souterrain (LH014-007----) is just outside its perimeter at NW. The enclosure was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (Apr. 2022)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.