Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rock, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rock
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86275, -6.49735
- SMR number
- LH014-099----
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 rise in a gently undulating low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) defined by two slight fosses is visible on OSI aerial images (2000). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhance aerial view from OSI (2000)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.