Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Manistown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manistown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86960, -6.51432
- SMR number
- LH014-098----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Located on a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (27/04/2011). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth (2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.