Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Bogtown, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.