Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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
- 53.87423, -6.46713
- SMR number
- LH014-101001-
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
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 perimeter of a large crescent-shaped enclosure (Wth c. 10-20m) is attached outside the defining fosse of the large enclosure (LH014-101----) SW-N-NE, from where another drain curves out to the N and E (Chord E-W c. 65m). The long ditches of a rectangular enclosure or field (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 35-55m E-W) are attached to the perimeter of the large enclosure N-NE, largely removing the boundary of the crescent-shaped enclosure. This field fits into a corner of one of the regular rectangular fields recorded on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map, the cropmarks of which can also be seen on the Google image. The enclosures can also be seen faintly on Digital Globe images (2011-13), and they 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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.