Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Drumcashel, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcashel
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87390, -6.46713
- SMR number
- LH014-101----
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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
Located on a N-facing slope overlooking the valley of the W-E Glyde River, and clearly visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). The cropmark of a large subcircular enclosure (dims c. 85m E-W; c. 75m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse can be traced WSW-N-ESE. It is cut by an E-W field bank S of the centre and is not visible in the crop S of this feature. A rectangular field (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 35-55m E-W) is attached to the perimeter at N, and a crescent-shaped enclosure (Wth c. 10-20m) is attached outside the defining fosse of the large enclosure SW-N-NE, from where another drain curves out to the N and E (Chord c. 65m E-W). The cropmarks of drains associated with mapped fields can be seen further N. The features were first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.