Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Braganstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Braganstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89087, -6.41006
- SMR number
- LH015-042----
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 at the E end of a low E-W ridge. Aerial photograph (GB89.I.01) shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse. It is also visible on Map Genie (1995) and Digital Globe (2011-13).
See the attached enhanced images from (01) Map Genie (1995) and (_02) Digital Globe
Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Amended: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.