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Enclosure - large enclosure

Bogtown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Bogtown, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bogtown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.88988, -6.51766
SMR number
LH014-095----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a fosse feature (Wth c. 2-5m) ESE-W-NE is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 21/04/2019; 27/06/2019), with an outer fosse SSE-NW (ext. diam. c. 100m NW-S) that joins the inner fosse at NW but is not visible elsewhere. Rath (LH014-096----) is c. 95m to the ENE. The enclosure is also faintly visible on OSI aerial images (c. 2012), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 November 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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