Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Drumcar, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcar
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86390, -6.38501
- SMR number
- LH015-019----
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 slight rise on the floodplain of the River Dee c. 3.5km from where it debouches into the sea at Annagassan, with a SW-NE section of the stream c. 70m to the NW. It is also on the demesne of Drumcar. A large oval enclosure (dims c. 90m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). Other wide drainage features that might have been associated with meanders of the river are also visible. The enclosure is also visible as a slightly raised feature on Google Earth (05/10/2009; 28/01/2017). Thanks to Anthony Murphy for drawing attention to the Google Earth images.
See the attached enhanced virw from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 7 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.